Sounds like a pretty easy and inexpensive option to try. Vet was saying try a water/bleach solution, but that seemed a little harsh and didn’t want to use that if I could avoid it.
I have a 30-year-old 90+ pound male Sulcata that has lived in his personally excavated burrow near my house for 20+ years. For some background I live in South Texas and I stays pretty damp much of the year and this tortoise has flooded out multiple times and was removed until the burrow dried...