Quote Originally Posted by bcr229 View Post
Unfortunately after dealing with crypto I found this out the hard way. You can disinfect used enclosures that are contaminated with it, but doing so is incredibly difficult and frankly using strong ammonia isn't something you'd want to do in your house.

I took the cages outside, used 100% ammonia in a spray bottle, and soaked them. Waited an hour, soaked them again. Repeated hourly for a day, and then washed with soapy water and rinsed them well.

Smaller non-porous items that wouldn't be destroyed by steam, like plastic hides and water bowls, were run through the dishwasher. Anything porous was discarded.

Apparently UV-C radiation kills crypto as well as a host of other bacteria and virii, and in fact it's one method used by municipal water supplies for water treatment before the stuff gets to your faucet, but no one has studied the combined strength + duration required to kill the strains of crypto that affect reptiles. Also UV-C generators that emit strong enough radiation to do the job aren't cheap.
Wow, I had no idea you had to deal with this. What a nightmare. I hope you didn't loose any or to many animals? So sorry The sanitizing you had to do, wow. But since you already had those cages, I understand that its better to go through those extremes then having to repurchase everything.

I would do the same. But I won't buy used. I would have up until yesterday. But now..no way.