enclousure decoriations

[rumfreak]

can you use real sandstone rocks and timber branches to decorate your enclosure or is there a risk of pythons contracting disiese or lice from porley washed items please show pics of your custom enclousures

[Xenogenesis]

i just use hot water and vinigar to get rid of the mites, dunno if this is correct or not but its what i've been told by a renouned reptile vet

[Serpant_Lady]

lots of people talk about cooking them at 200 degrees C for 40 mins or so.
But my mum wouldn't let me near the oven as I have set fire to the toster twice.
I washed my branches and put my rocks in the fire to burn/smoke anything out.

[NightTiger]

I use wood logs in all my enclosures, but i never collect anything thats been on the ground.That's when the creepy crawlies get in there, also the wood starts to decompose on the under side and you'll find that white ant have already found the log and made a home out of it, leaving the wood brittle and not suitable to use.Put what logs you can in a pre-heated oven at 200c + for 20-30 mins to kill any alge,bacteria, invertabrates and such. Then you can either varnish the logs to seal them and to make easier to clean.I remove all the loose bark. Before I put any reptiles in, I Top of decent the logs once set up just to safe, had no problems.