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Ok, perhaps I am getting obsessive and/or starting to overpost. But I am still on a quest to get Crystal's new home as close to perfect for him as I can. I see that there are a lot of approaches and opinions about cleaning tortoise dishes. I lean toward wanting things disinfected, for his sake and ours. I have been fine washing the food dish with soap and water in the kitchen sink, but the water dish, in which he sometimes poops or urates (is that the verb?), I want sterilized. I have been using Lysol cleaner, in the bathtub, and meaning to switch to a bleach solution, but it hasn't felt so important what I used because it was a plastic dish.
I read about using terracotta dishes to help keep his nails shorter, and that seemed like a great idea. Plus the big plastic water dish was taking up too much room and was probably too deep. But now I'm concerned about how to disinfect the unglazed terracotta. Since it is porous (soaks in water and then dries out again), I am concerned that cleaner could leach out from it back into the water Crystal drinks. Has anyone else thought this hard about this?
I read about using terracotta dishes to help keep his nails shorter, and that seemed like a great idea. Plus the big plastic water dish was taking up too much room and was probably too deep. But now I'm concerned about how to disinfect the unglazed terracotta. Since it is porous (soaks in water and then dries out again), I am concerned that cleaner could leach out from it back into the water Crystal drinks. Has anyone else thought this hard about this?