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Hi you can try boiling it in a pan. Also you can use bleach but need to make sure its rinced well after so there is no residue or smell left. Regards Konstantin

Test first. Chlorine attacks or destabilizes some plastics, resulting in odd odors, brittleness or discoloration or cloudiness.

If it's plastic or an impervious material I would use a 10% bleach solution. Organic materials like cork bark, leaf litter, etc. I would bake in the oven. As for the enclosure itself a 10% bleach solution ot 70% or higher isopropyl alcohol.

...her death if it was some sort of parasite or she just didn’t make it for some strange reason either way just in case it was a parasite I’m gonna dump everything into the bin and bleach the enclosure. Thanks for all your suggestions and feedback and for trying to help it’s still very appreciated.

...to significantly avoid them? I hesitate, to the extreme, to stop my breeding because of these because it takes me a monster time and ruins my morale to clean everything in addition to the real household that I do (vacuum cleaner and mop with bleach x2, once a week in the whole house.) cordially

Overkill, soap and water is generally good enough. I've used a 10% bleach solution in the one instance I've known for sure that parasites were the cause of death (a WC A. avic that had nematodes). Wreck the webbing, the tarantula can make more webbing. Mould is a non-issue, it will not kill...

Dom is pretty much dead on. But you can't sterilize porous material unless you pressure cook it. a 10% bleach dip is cheaper than the Peroxide dip. And if you are dipping it in alcohol, then for all that is holy make it methanol. Don't you dare use the precious spirits that can be imbibed.

Try to remove all dirt and rinse with water until clean. Then you get a bucket of water with ten percent bleach and you put the plants in for a couple seconds, then you flip the plant over and put it in the water. Then you want to rinse off the plants and put them in fresh new organic soil. Bio...

I'm assuming 10% household bleach and 90% water. = .5% chlorine by volume. 50,000 PPM.

Thanks so much, I will use the bleach method!

The bleach is to try and eliminate any invertebrate pests or eggs on your plants. However the soaking and rinsing will help to remove any unwanted chemical residue. You can soak the whole plant in a 10% bleach solution. I've used this countless times to disinfect plants for vivariums. Even...

You can clean the roots in 10% bleach but I'm not sure about the stem and leaves.

I've heard soaking plants in 10% bleach is good. @Frogdaddy am I right on this?

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Rinse all the old soil away every bit from the roots. I would give them a rinse in a 10% bleach solution. Rinse well. Replant in clean, organic, additive free soil for a few months to make sure all the pesticides are gone.

Treat everything in the enclosure as potentially contaminated. Trust me, if you clean out an old enclosure with your bare hands even weeks after the tarantula died, you can still get an itchy rash. Probably not. The bleach or detergents would likely break down the hairs.

OP didn't mention the color of mites, or what their bellies looked like. They could just be symbiotic mites from a feeder bug. But ya, getting rid of mites is mainly just removing moisture. Mites are pretty much land crabs. They die super fast or form a cyst to survive the drought. The numbers...

...and made my corrections. To clean and rid the previous enclosure and things inside for use again follow this. 1. Mix 1 part water and 1 part bleach. Rinse, scrub, wash and wash enclosure, corkbark and whatever else. 2. Properly dry everything and let corkback dry outside in direct sunlight...

Where do you see the meat? I'm looking at the skull and I don't see anything? I'm pretty sure it's just discolored lol. I put hot glue there because it was pointy and I didn't want it to poke at the abdomen.

Is that hot glue holding wire anchors on the temporal/zygomatic arches or is that bits of raw meat? Baking might discolor the skull. You should try a 10% bleach dunk. But if that thing still has meat on it... :sick: