Soap?

[LIZARDLOVER]

What kind of soap do you use to clean out stuff for your geckos? What's toxic and what's not?

 

[ReptileMan27]

I generally just use hot water..

 

[lucia]

It depends on what you're washing or why you need to wash it. I have just used hot water for cleaning up feces (eww). If you need to sterilize something, you can use a bleach/water mixture. Just make sure it's rinsed and dried before it comes into contact with your gecko.

 

[T&KBrouse]

Bleach and water solution to clean tanks. Spray down with alcohol and water to kill anything the bleach missed.
If a major "Poop & Smear Campaign" has taken place, the snake gets a bath with Johnson's Baby Shampoo.

(Don't own any geckos yet, so this probably didn't help at all)

 

[LIZARDLOVER]

What would you use for food and water dishes?

 

[LizMarie]

ive used dish washing soap.. but just a drop and scrub it with an old tooth brush.. and rinse, rinse, rinse, rinse..

 

[david13]

i just wash everything with hot water ( tiles, water dishes, food dishes, hides)

 

[mikeosoft]

I use hot water to remove any gunk, then spray it down with 91% alcohol. The alcohol kills everything and evaporates quickly.

 

[T&KBrouse]

What would you use for food and water dishes?

I spray them down with bleach solution also. Then wash them in hot water and dish soap. Once a week, all the water dishes go into the dishwasher.

 

[Alchemy]

I put tubs through a rinse cycle in the dishwasher, that's good hot water and they come out smelling clean. You don't want to dry them in there though, the buggers sometimes loose their shape. grrr, did that to my first set :main_thumbsdown:

 

[Inland Geckos]

yea make sure you rinse well when using chemicals and id suggest not soaking stuff. clean with it but if you soak some items such as the magnet rocks leak liquid inside that doesnt dry or can still hold vapor. i prefer dishsoap personally bleach scares the crap outta me.