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phrozendata
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Registered: 04/23/00
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When Contamination Strikes!
#736368 - 07/10/02 09:51 AM (21 years, 2 months ago) |
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I have two small fruiting chambers with perlite humidification. I usually fruit a maximum of four cakes in each terrarium at a time but they could hold six, packed, with little room to fruit. Well, I lost four cakes to one of the terrariums today. Peices of cake on the wet perlite were over-run by green and two cakes were showing damage. I isolated the terrarium from my fruiting room, which happens to be my bed-room, and emptied it into a garbage bag which was directly taken outside to the garbage pale. Next, the fruiting chamber and anything inside it was cleaned with a 10% bleach and left to air dry. The fruiting room was vacumed, lysol sprayed in the air, and any working surfaces sprayed and whiped with a 10% bleach solution. I will then put fresh perlite into the clean terrarium with plenty of H202. I figure I might as well clean up good now than ruin the rest of my work in the future. It took all but 20 minutes and i'm happy with the job. I feel my working areas are one step closer to being sterile.
-------------------- "There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people" - Aldous Huxley
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TheShroomHermit
Divine Hermit of the Everything


Registered: 02/19/02
Posts: 7,575
Loc: border of Canada and Mexi...
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Re: When Contamination Strikes! [Re: phrozendata]
#736386 - 07/10/02 09:55 AM (21 years, 2 months ago) |
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A true man of action!
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Fd3000
I'll eat YOU!

Registered: 05/14/02
Posts: 1,356
Loc: ^^ His house ^^
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I hear that using peroxide to whipe down surfaces is better than a diluded bleach solutions. Also peroxide doesn't have a nasty smell like bleach....
The greens a bitch, Fd
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phrozendata
Carpal Tunnel


Registered: 04/23/00
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Re: When Contamination Strikes! [Re: Fd3000]
#736670 - 07/10/02 11:46 AM (21 years, 2 months ago) |
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Bleach is one of the best disinfectents. A 10% solution will only smell if you rub your nose all up in it. I whipe the surfaces and then let it air dry. Seems to work very good.
-------------------- "There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people" - Aldous Huxley
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Hippie3
mycotopiate


Registered: 11/06/99
Posts: 3,090
Loc: mycotopia.net
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Re: When Contamination Strikes! [Re: Fd3000]
#736935 - 07/10/02 02:03 PM (21 years, 2 months ago) |
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whoever told you peroxide was better than bleach for cleaning surfaces lied to you. and i personally like the smell of bleach, smells like victory over contams to me.
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Frog31337
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Registered: 06/17/02
Posts: 779
Loc: Midwest, US
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Re: When Contamination Strikes! [Re: Hippie3]
#738265 - 07/11/02 04:50 AM (21 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hippie3 likes the smell of bleach? Who would have thought?  I wish you well with your newly cleaned room, you aren't available to clean my area are you? J/K
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