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What's your favorite cleaning solution for your herps?

G

Green Bean

Reptile Chick
What do you guys use when you clean your cages?

Specialty Reptile Product? Bleach Solution? Water and Vinegar?

What do you guys think about using those Bleach wipes and water?
 
Chlorhexadine solution ("Nolvasan").

Heard about it here in the forums over a year ago, and haven't looked back.

regards,
jazz
 
I wash everything with Dawn soap. Rinse. Spray with 25% bleach, 75% water solution. Let sit. Rinse. Dry.

Water bowls, hides, 'small stuff', etc. get soaked in bleach water as well.

Planning to get around to purchasing some Nolvasan sooner or later.

D80
 
Green Bean said:
What do you guys use when you clean your cages?
Specialty Reptile Product? Bleach Solution? Water and Vinegar?
What do you guys think about using those Bleach wipes and water?
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I use water, a scotch brite pad and elbow grease.
 
I'm new enough to snakes that I don't use nolvasan on my snake's viv yet, but I'll chime in to say that chlorhexadine is fantastic stuff. It's the basic veterinary cleanser and disinfectant. Diluted, a jug lasts forever. (Well, depending on how many cages or kennels you're cleaning, I suppose.) And it's not as irritating to the respiratory tract as the fumes from bleach can be. (Although you should still let any area air out before returning the animal.)

SaulsMom
 
If there's any stuck on stuff I let it soak in a little dish soap, rinse, spray with bleach water, rinse let air dry. If there's no poop stuck on anything I use antibacterial wipes and then rinse with water and just dry it with a towel.
 
Once a month I use a diluted bleach solution. I don't measure but is about 1/4 bleach to water ratio. I rinse well then allow to dry and put the viv's back together again
 
Wow, a 1 to 4 ratio sounds really strong. I've been told that 1 to 10 is the strongest/best to use. They use that at a Humane Society I used to volunteer for. I would be worried about not rinsing well enough with that ratio and giving my snake a chemical burn, which can happen.
I use warm water for quick clean ups, and a green reptile cleaning spray - I forget which brand - Zoomed or something, for more thourough cleaning.
 
kimbyra said:
I would be worried about not rinsing well enough with that ratio and giving my snake a chemical burn, which can happen.
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I could be mistaken, but I believe chlorine evaporates rather quickly. In the old days for example, before water treatment plants used chloramines and just used chlorine, people just sat buckets of water out and let the chlorine evaporate from the water for their fish tanks.

Now obviously, the more chlorine the longer the evaporation . . . I personally have not had a negative affect from using a 25% chorline to 75% (or stronger) solution for cleaning. I do rinse and dry well before returning snakes to their cages.

D80
 
Traci1 said:
I LOVE Healthy Habitat by Natural Chemistry.
Chlorhexidine rocks too!
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Where do you buy cholorhexidine solution ? is this a normal find in the pet stores or drug stores?
 
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