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Re: Multimammate Mouse, Common African Rat, Soft-furred or African Soft-furred Rat
 Originally Posted by littleindiangirl
Notice, just because you can't smell them, doesn't mean they dont smell, or that they aren't pooping and peeing all day long and have to live in it.
Please clean their enclosure's at least once a week. I again, understand no one but ME can smell these ASF's, but I apparently have a very sensitive nose to them because after one week the smell makes me want to get sick. I have grown more used to it now, but it's still a very strong (although not largly permeating) odor.
Saying you only need to change them when YOU smell them is not sanitary, given they are living right in it and on top of it, and are far more capable than us with scent sensitivity, you should clean it more often to prevent the bacteria growth from their excrements. Especially seeing as how most of them choose one spot to pee and poop in, it's terribly unhealthy to let them sit in it for weeks at a time.
You must have missed the note in my post that I'm using sweet PDZ...
Check out this post:
http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...948#post931948
If you go to the official sweet PDZ website, you can read up on the part that says using sweet PDZ will help eliminate the harmful effects of ammonia and bacteria and yada yada. The thread linked above also mentions an alternative called equine fresh bedding with the same properties - fights bacterial growth, eliminates ammonia, etc. etc.
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