Sounds to me, like you may have a case of the mites. They are the most " GOD forsaken, terrrible thing that could happen to a collection. " I am glad that I have not had to deal with them in a long time. I have always been big on " using none medications and non-chemicals, " when it comes to treating Reptiles and I was doing alot of research the other night and found something of great interest. Mites, can be hard as hell to get rid of and in the past, Vapona Strips were the only thing that I ever seen that would work. You will hear good and bad about using them and the fact is, " it is a chemical. " I may have found an alternative, that would be all natural and would not hurt the snakes, " actually I found the guys that found it. " The name is " Hypoaspis Miles. " Hypoaspis Miles, is a predator mite, that farmers have used for ages to combat other mites that infect their crops. Hypoaspis miles, has no need to feed off of Reptiles and Mammals, they love to eat other mites and their eggs. I read, were some Herper's in Australia had tested them on some collections that had been infected by mites and the Hypoaspis Miles, devoured them all in time and the eggs and there were no repeat epidemics! This could be a Godsend! After the Hypoaspis Miles, eats all of the bad mites and their eggs, they just simply die of starvation and do not affect the Reptile at all. GOD forbid, if I ever got mites, I would definately give this a try and it is pretty simple logic; " kill a predator, with a predator. " If you go into your google search engine and type in " Hypoaspis Miles, " it will pull up different sites that carry them and they are cheap and rush delivered. This could be the answer to our prayers and we may never again have to subject our Reptiles, to any Chemical to eradicate mites again! Number one, of course is to prevent it from happening to begin with and quarantine anything new. I hope someone who is suffering from mites right now, will read this and give Hypoaspis Miles a shot and let the rest of us know how it worked? It will not happen over night and you only have to put about 3tspoons of them per cage and bring the humidity up a little and they will hatch and go to work. The guys from Australia, seemed to be highly thrilled with their results and I will see what else I can find and post further information. .........Johnson Herp

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