Things from outside

[BUSHSNAKE]

i use alot of stuff i collect myself and i normally dont do anything at all to it as long as its dried out...i get co habitors like spiders and little beetles but i dont care i have nothing against bugs...i dig it

[infernalis]

i use alot of stuff i collect myself and i normally dont do anything at all to it as long as its dried out...i get co habitors like spiders and little beetles but i dont care i have nothing against bugs...i dig it

I have to agree here.

Many people are overly paranoid about scare monger posts on forums and really bad information.

Firstly, Virtually all parasites that should be of any concern require an intermediate host to perpetuate. So as long as there is no really fresh bird poop on an item, just put it in the darn cage.

I have been digging up sod from my yard and using it in reptile cages for over a decade and never once had any negative issues.

I cut limbs out of trees with a saw, and stick the limb right in the cage.

Been picking rocks out of the creek for just as long, no ill effects.

Your snakes cannot get parasites from a stick, they have to eat the intermediate or definitive host to become infected.


Baking sticks and putting rocks in a dishwasher is rather pointless.

[Stefan-A]

Your snakes cannot get parasites from a stick, they have to eat the intermediate or definitive host to become infected.

Mites, ticks, fungi, protozoa etc. don't have to be ingested, some of them can literally be inhaled. And just about any pathogen can be transferred from the object to the drinking water and on to the snake.

Baking sticks and putting rocks in a dishwasher is rather pointless.

The latter definitely is pointless and might break the dishwasher.