I have a 60 tub Vision hatchling rack with about 18 babies in it. I clean the tubs daily, sometimes twice a day, as the babies seem to urinate often. I have plastic Grape Juice and such, containers filled with water in my snake room, so I fill bowls as needed on a nightly basis. The bowls also get filled when I clean the tub. I usually have two types of cleaning for the hatchling rack, full and partial. Full, tub has poo or pee in it. I take it about 10 paces to my snake bathroom, take out the snake, paper towel, and bowl. I toss the paper towel, spray in Simple Green, wash the bottom and sides of the inside of the tub, rinse, rinse, rinse, and put in a new paper towel. I use my fingers to rinse out the water dish, scrub off any poo or pee, and rinse it again, and fill. I then put the bowl and snake back in, walk back in the snake room, and put the tub back in the rack. Cleaning number two, partial...if the snake did a small pee, and it is dried up on the paper towel, I usually remove the paper towel, dip a paper towel in the water dish, scrub quickly the bottom of the tub, snake is still in the tub, I just wipe around the snake, and then move the snake a bit, and wipe where it was. No cleaning solution is used. New paper towel goes in, and fresh water from the water bottles I have in the snake room. I totally clean the snake tub at least every other day.



Melamine rack, has about 8 06 babies and a couple of 05's. I clean this rack daily, using the above procedures.



Adult Freedom Breeder rack, has 36 adults. I clean 6 tubs a night/day. I remove the snake, place in a temporary tub or on the scale, remove the newspaper, and take the tub and water dish to the snake bathroom. Put the tub on the side of the bathtub, and scrub it, rinse, scrub, and rinse-I use Simple Green here too. Wash the water bowl in the sink, use Simple Green sometimes, and just water others. Put new newspaper in the tub, fresh water in the water bowl, and then put the snake back in. I spot check for water at least every other day, the snakes higher up get fewer spot checks, but earlier cleaning, even if the tub looks clean. I use plastic Target or WallMart bowls.

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