Peaces of Wood

My is a very simple question

I am thinking on put some peaces of wood inside the enclousure, twigs of trees, is that the correct word?, anyhow how should I proceed? I mean, how I desinfect, what should I use?

Thank You

My local pet store stocks pieces of what appear to be cork bark.
Pretty cheap to buy and arched just right to make a hidey-hole for a young corn..
Dip in disinfectant, rinse with clean water, leave to dry, put in tank.
Also, the outer surface is pretty rough and thats good at shedding time

http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2780&highlight=branches

And make sure the type of wood is safe.

http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=435&highlight=aromatic+wood

Pesticides on trees...

It is good to know the history of any tree branch before deciding a piece is safe to use.

Most popular pesticides put into general population use, why they seem to get banned after a few years in real world use. (DDT, diazanon...etc).

Some people will hose end spray a tree in their yard down once or twice, thrice a year with the super duper, genuine, official stuff, mixed up extra, extra strong , so as to drop them bugs dead in their tracks, with the slightest whiff of the latest and the greatest toxic nerve agent type of petro chemical insecticide.
(Bug juice Du Jour).

Avoid this type tree branch as they quite possibly may have a toxic residue that one may or may not be able to wash off..

Other people have trees and never use pesticides on them, those would be much more desirable, I would think.

I believe they have forests full of pesticide free trees, as of yet, in many places.

We have forests of sorts here in the Sonoran Desert, only with lotsa cactus's.
My caption for the following linked Saguaro cactus forest photo is "Where's Waldo?
http://www.a"mericansouthwest.net/arizona/saguaro/snpwide2_l.html

. . . also

After perusing the lists of acceptable plants for pets etc., make sure you get a safe type of wood.

I have used various types of woods for my birds with success. The woods we have chosen were cut down by my father-in-law, and were intended for use in a wood burning furnace, and therefore have been left out to dry for a year or more. My wife is very thorough in washing them with a light bleach solution, rinsing them, letting them sun dry for several days, then liberally coats them with a bird mite spray. I don't know why this wouldn't work for your snakes.

I've also heard talk of being able to 'cook' wood in the oven to help disinfect, but haven't tried it, nor can I find the recipe! (quick searches for cooking+wood+disinfecting revealed lots of wood burning stove and cutting board ads)

Hope this offers some help.
D80

I use hardekool-wood, but I don't think you get that anywhere other than Africa.

Anycase... I take a nice dry piece of wood (that's safe for snakes) and chip all the bark off. Then I let it soak in Hot water till water's cold and let sundry.

This takes off all the stuffies and whatnots so..

Maybe it works.

I'm almost embarrased to tell this!

I once (okay last week) cut two huge limbs off of a fallen oak by my house. Cut them to a perfect size for a 36" Vision cage. They had some moss and lichen on them so I whittled off all I could. Then came the problem. They wouldn't fit in a 55 gallon drum or anything!. So I weighted them down, threw them in my swimming pool, and triple shocked the pool! In a couple more days, I'll dry them out and use them for climbing branches!
Almost as bad as the time I gave a dead mouse a C-section because I REALLY needed those pinkies!

U R CRAZY!

In Afrikaans we say: Heeltemal van looitjie getik! "Crazy"