Merlin, by scrub brush do you mean those like a shoe brush or like a metal bristled brush?

Also, Merlin's method seems to be the easiest, while the others more thorough. I'd like to see what everyone else thinks of Merlin's method? I prefer his method because its so easy really.

i do the same thing that merlin said one time... it worked

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Anthony I am talking about a stiff bristled brush. I would worry about a metal brush leaving peices of the wire bristles in the wood to be ingested or wound the iguana.
It's actually more work than you would think. I did it with the branches I used in my iguana cage.
I scrubbed on that thing for quite a while before the water woud run clean off of it!

And it was a source of great amusement for my wife to see me standing in a tub full of dirty water scrubbing a tree!

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I took a thick cotton rope and wound it every few inches apart, around Nadia's "trees" and nailed it to the wood every 3 inches or so.... (making sure the nails didn't stick up at all). It gave a good grip so he wouldn't fall.

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I am a little concerned about the rope. I have used a kind of rope (fiber, marine rope??) in the enclosure for all the weeks now and never had a problem. But just now, I saw him try to bite the rope! Is cotton rope safe and if so where to get it?

I would stick with the grass fiber type rope. Even if he manages to eat a bit of it it will digest. The cotton will get frayed and the toes will get tangled in it.

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He, he, I bet! I wouldn't have only laughed my butt of at you, I would've got the camera out too!

Merlin, forgive me if I'm wrong, but your sentence about your wife laughing about you scrubbing that tree seems familiar. Didn't you post that on HerpHabitats before? If that was you, you said something about insects later infesting the cage and that they were borers and bore holes in the enclosure??

LOL Yep that was me! Could have been HH or even maybe IZ! A few weeks later some insects did come out of the branch but they did not bother the wood of the cage. Boreres live deep inside a living tree and other than a thorough baking I don't know of anything that will prevent them if they are present. However they are totally harmless to bothe ig and cage.

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GRRRRRR....... ok now I don't know what to do. I don't want borer ants in my igs home!

What made the borers start coming out? If I leave it UN bleached untreated etc. outside the enclosure to see for a few weeks it should be able to tell right?