How often do you clean the enclosure POLL

When do you clean? (You can select more than one!)

  • Right after it feeds and drop the feeders bolus.

    Votes: 16 17.0%
  • When the little white mites are noticable on the deceased feeders.

    Votes: 10 10.6%
  • Whenever in the critter room.

    Votes: 4 4.3%
  • Hardly ever.

    Votes: 41 43.6%
  • Continously!

    Votes: 5 5.3%
  • Once a week on average.

    Votes: 14 14.9%
  • Every two weeks on average.

    Votes: 11 11.7%
  • Always make sure water bowl is topped off.

    Votes: 43 45.7%

  • Total voters
    94
  • Poll closed .

Scott C.

ArachnoScott
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I like to feed all the T's one day then clean all the remains the next. Actual cleaning of the cage (walls, substrate change etc.) I try to keep to the bare minimum. I usually feed only once a week. I've found this to be the only resonable way to go about it for me because I usually get side-tracked, and end up spending a lot of time watching.
Some exceptions to the remains clean up are the P. murinus cages. All but one of them like to incorporate the corpses into their webs. Luckily their cages are always bone dry so I just remove their webbing when it gets ridiculous (usually about once a month). Also my adult C. crawshayi has yet to leave any remains that are big enough for me to see unless they belong to a recently departed mouse. Lastly, all my Ephobopus sp. like to shove their prey remains, and molts into the bottom of their burrows. I have not figured a way around this so I just have to change out their subs. a little more often. :)
 
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