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Hi, I am a novice and I was just wondering the proper way to clean tanks and racks, how often, and the mixture or solution of chemicals that everyone uses?

Thanks

i use a 5% bleach solution for my big cages like boaphiles... just put it in a spray bottle, spray, wipe, spray liberally with pure water, wipe, let fully dry, replace everything.

for small cages, i just take them to the sink and use hot water and a little dish soap.

i spot clean nearly daily, change substrate when it's obviously needed or monthly, and really scrub the cages down every 3ish months.

owned 100s of snakes over the course of 15 years... never had any sort of illness/infection in a snake other than 2 wc balls. and my snake room smells nice.

I do similarly but I use a stronger bleach mixture, more like 10 or 15%. I re-use delicups for feeding babies, so I throw them in a utility tub and fill it up with water then add bleach to the whole thing. Reptile Basics sells a good disinfectant which I have been told works better and faster than bleach, but it's a bit pricey so I stick to what has worked for me in the past.
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