Cryptosporidium- How to sanitize?

[ahouseofscales]

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone!

Straight ammonia will kill crypto. I think it has to sit on the affected surface for a few minutes before being cleaned off.

Speaking from experience: you will want to do this outside.

Good to know! Yeah I've used pure ammonia to cycle my fish tanks before, definitely something to be done outside!

You can use a 3% hydrogen peroxide solution; it's safer than ammonia and just as effective.

Please note that when I say "effective" it doesn't mean there is a 100% guarantee that this will eliminate crypto. There's no substance that you can be absolutely certain will do that - so I am glad to hear you are not re-using enclosures or furnishings.

I'm sorry you lost your geckos; crypto is a nightmare.

Thank you. I will look into using this as well.

Quarantining exposed items to wait out the lifecycle while there is no host may work. This article says they can live a very long time without a host. 6-8 months. If going that route, to be safe, I would move that equipment into a box in a room away from the reptiles and not use that equipment for a year.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC81179/

Some chemicals that are noted to kill the ootosyts from this article: https://www.parkvetgroup.com/farm-an...%204%20minutes

Effective disinfectants:

• 2-3% KenoTMCox – kills 99% oocysts after 2 hours contact time
• 2-4% Neopredisan – kills 99% oocysts after 2 hours contact time
• 10% Ox-Virin – reduced oocyst infectivity after 1 hour contact time
• 3% Hydrogen Peroxide – reduced oocyst infectivity after 4 minutes

Thanks! I don't have extras of my equipment so unfortunately quarantine won't work. I will look and see if I can find any of those disinfectants!