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I keep venomous and my GF has a Map Turtle and I am getting paranoid about my snakes picking up salmonella from the sinks,etc. in my house. I clean them w/ bleach after she cleans her turtle stuff in them.Will Salmonella hurt snakes anyway? I hope I'm being to precautious b/c it's getting old...any feed back welcome.

I would hope that someone keeping venomous snakes would already know this as this falls under basic reptile husbandry....

Probably every reptile out there (or close to it anyway) has some strain of salmonella. I've had students in my microbiology lab isolate strains from reptiles in the past as part of an assignment. Microbes are everywhere. You are being overly paranoid about it though. The chance of transfer of a strain in the turtles that would cause harm to one of your snakes is much less than other pathogens.