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...is cleaner, easier to store, easier to work with, and easier on the specimens. Formaldehyde also breaks down carotenoids faster and seems to bleach older specimens too. Here's the issue with color preservation: structural coloration is made up of millions of microstructures that refract...

What about baking it? Like 200 for 20 min or longer if you are really worried. Then you wouldn't have to worry about toxic wood. It shouldn't be treated with anything if it's for pets.

I was watching nat geo once they said if the lions 🦁 didn’t leave the army of ants would eat them .. how true it is I Don’t Know but Amys of Ants can destroy any caged pets besides fish. Unless you happened to have an ant eater … :rofl: stop the scout ants or be invaded..

...guide them! You definitely have to wash down every area inside the home they touch!!! Or they will never stop, like never. I used about 20% bleach in a spray bottle, maybe higher percentage. Vaseline - it depends on the species - some it doesn’t act as a barrier, others it does according to...

Yeah I think better safe than sorry but I’ve used other cleaners and stuff in the general vicinity with no problem. I imagine as long as it doesn’t get in with the Ts enclosure it’s fine but I got a lot of spiders and don’t want them to die

Both are fine. I've used liquid and aerosol air fresheners and disinfectants in the same room. Clorox and bleach on the floors near them as well to no ill effect. Obviously you don't want to spray the enclosures or any of your equipment. Tangent: I was in a T room once where the keeper used...

Yeah what bs , some pet stores don’t even give out receipts like one of my local ones . They had a tiny bag of eco earth for $30!!! Betcha someone will buy it .

Lmao they got fed a line from someone. Hopefully those are even local to the country, I'd dunk it in alcohol lol. Or bleach. They should give you your money back and exchange those feeders for something the T can eat.

I threw out all of their husbandry equipment including the enclosure. I'm going to toss the tongs too I have another pair and I'm scared to get the solution wrong lol

I would sterilize any tongs or husbandry equipment used in the infected enclosure. 10% bleach solution just to make sure.

While I mistakenly used the term sterilization in my first post, I corrected it in my 2nd or 3rd post...somewhere around there. So, no, I've been using the term correctly for a few posts now. Didn't initially, but did correct myself several times before this post. For example: You even...

I was responding to YOUR argument, your statements, so if its a straw man argument, its yours. nice, moving the goalposts....until now, the term disinfecting hasnt even come up...we are talking about sterilization here. I never said things shouldnt be kept clean, I said they dont need to be...

Awesome I'll soak my tongs tonight! Thank you.

...enclosure into another, you haven't transferred the pathogens. If any of the other animals start showing signs of infection, then isolate them and observe. If you're worried about things like tongs or catch cups, I'd just sanitize them in a 5% bleach solution (1 cup bleach per gallon of water).

...are different than sterilization. Baking wood and disinfecting the enclosure with either a quick ethanol spray or a rubdown/rinse with 5% bleach won't hurt anything. Kritter keepers and ceramic water-dishes are even dishwasher-safe, so there's another route one could go. Plastic sauce cups...

But i am not the one suggesting to do anything.....because I have no basis to do so. No, I was responding directly to your "rearing facilities" argument If you are arguing anecdotes, i have never sterilized a thing in 20 years and literally never had a single problem. However, when I first...

...rearing spiders in a sterile environment which was not what I suggested. If we're arguing from anecdotes, I disinfect all enclosures with 5% bleach between uses and bake all wood before and after putting it in an enclosure. I don't reuse substrate. I've never had the mould problems Marshall...

seriously, viruses....no offense, but that's incredibly weak and ridiculously uncommon......if a virus was present that was dangerous to ts, you would have been dealing with a dead or dying t to begin with...I dont think that's what anyone meant by re-using wood.....and if a virus was present...

...do it. I always bake my wood at 350*F for at least half an hour before moving it to another cage. All of my enclosures are sterilized with bleach before reuse. The hands-on time for baking is less than a minute (pop in, pop out and let cool) so there's really no reason to not do it. Better...

How I treat my pieces of wood with Lichen's, is I rinse it a few times - to get rid of 'obvious' hitchhikers. Then I let it soak in a weak bleach solution for 15 minutes, then rinse it again and then let t soak in a plain water for 30-60 minutes. I follow a similar procedure for my vivarium...