Count Down till I Get "Mint"

Faequine · 02-19-09, 11:49 AM

Made the first payment on the Candy Cane Corn I'm getting, and even though i dont have it yet his/her name is going to be Mint. Mwahahaha! Now during the time itll take to pay off the 178 bucks i need to clean and sanitize stuff. I have no bleach, but i have white vinager heard i could use that. ill be boiling the hides, and branch thing, but im more concerned about the tank at the moment.

Chu'Wuti · 02-19-09, 12:49 PM

Vinegar alone is not a reliable disinfectant. However, you might follow a vinegar treatment with H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide) to boost the disinfectant qualities. For both, you need to get strong concentrations. Don't combine them (my first statement was confusing in that regard); do vinegar first, let dry, then follow with H2O2.

Info here: Can Vinegar Disinfect Counters?

might help, though it isn't related to snake-keeping.

In addition, if you can put the tank in sunlight (but cover with plastic wrap and turn upside down so nothing can get in) that will also help disinfect the tank. Basically, what you want is a UV treatment, and sunlight is a strong source.

Those three are about the best "natural" disinfecting treatments that I know of.

Kmef07 · 02-19-09, 07:38 PM

Other than running the hides and stuff under really hot water and using like glass plus and some other mild cleaners i have never really been big on disinfecting. my house gets cleaned every week by a cleaning lady, but my cage has yet to grow mold or anything. i know there are some things that will grow that i can't see but either way i just never seem to have any problems

Faequine · 02-20-09, 10:50 AM

at the pet store i used to work at theyd rotate sanitizing and sterilizing with 2 different cleaners. Could you do the same with a vinager mix and bleach mix?

Chu'Wuti · 02-20-09, 05:18 PM

I wonder if they were using Zoo Med's Wipe Out at the petstore? It's supposed to be specially formulated for using with herps (though they still have to be removed before cleaning the enclosure, etc.). I use it occasionally for a super-duper clean up. Mostly, I just wash things with dish detergent really well; I'm pretty leery of chlorine bleach.

xXKATRINAXx · 02-24-09, 11:14 AM

stay away from the bleach and if you do use it make it bleach\water mostly water (but it's bad for the snake to have all those chemicals). the vinegar stinks to high heaven but it works ok, also you might try baking soda, just mix a little water in it and scrub with a scrubby sponge (a new one) it wont scratch the glass and its something that's always in the house. another thing to do would to soak it in a bathtub in the hottest water with soap for a while scrub the hell out of it, rinse and then let it sit out in the sun upside down to dry on a towel. the sun should get the rest of the germs if the scrubbing and hot water didn't.

i don't know if any of these things are flawed but i use them and im a house keeper. it might be a bad (and kinda embarrassing) job but i get $30 an hour and i only haft to work for 3 hours a day so > P but still it's $90 a day and i work 3 days a week that adds up to $270 a week, that's $1,080 a month. not bad for being 16.

Faequine · 02-24-09, 11:43 AM

will try the bakin soda. Though i cant be leaving the tank outside this time of year, to much snow. lol. and ill get some wipe out as a once a month type thing. i should be the mice soon too, so i have them then i wont need to worry about them later.

xXKATRINAXx · 02-24-09, 12:17 PM

HAHAHAHAHA OK, i live in oregon in the US and its been sunny and nice here pretty warm to and i tend to forget that people live in other places. lol

Faequine · 02-25-09, 11:40 AM

lol, im sure that happens all the time. You people with your nice weather -.- i miss seeing the grass. lol

Faequine · 02-26-09, 11:46 AM

a new pic of Mint. she offered me a banded verison and omg you guys got to look at it^^

Smilts · 02-26-09, 11:56 PM

Nice looking snake there

Chu'Wuti · 03-01-09, 05:29 AM

Beautiful snake! The head pattern looks cool. I'd love to see a close-up of that head!

You think it's always nice weather in Oregon? My middle son lives in Portland, and the weather was crazy in December around Christmas! Almost shut down the city; actually, I guess it pretty much did shut down the city, as the busses weren't running at one point. I don't think they were seeing much grass--if any!

Faequine, enjoy that beauty--post more pics!

Kmef07 · 03-01-09, 09:48 PM

My silly city here Cincinnati, ohio got pretty much shut down with only 3 inches of snow in the city before. This year we got almost a foot in the city and it was shut down for 2 days straight.

Chu'Wuti · 03-02-09, 09:28 AM

Personally, I think places are shutting down earlier & more because they're afraid of lawsuits for injuries if people were to try to go to work. Our campus is even shutting down for really minor snowstorms, but I can remember 30 years ago they wouldn't shut down at all, even when the snow was knee deep!

So, Faequine, how's that snake doing? Have you got her home yet?

Faequine · 03-02-09, 11:40 AM

No, i havent got it yet. I wont till may when the breeder will be comeing up for the reptile show. Shes going to trying and send my feeding pics cause she cant send a video, and next week she'll be sexy it so ill find out if i get a girl or a boy ^^.

You guys shut down for 3 inches of snow?! holy crap that unheard of here. unless its 3 ft and/or you live in the country. Last week we got 15-20 cm in less than 2 days and all that happened was busses where delay 10 mins or so and a bunch of accidents cause some idiots out there dont know how to drive when there snow on the ground.