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mites, please help

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Posted by: mishy at Mon May 22 00:36:59 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by mishy ]  
   

(you might see this repeated on other forums, im desperate for answers)
a few days ago i noticed one of my red tail boas skin looked really saggy and her scales looked funny and were dry. i thought maybe she was having sheding problems and for some reason got very dehydrated so iv been spraying her cage often and give her fresh water more often (usually clean water bowls once a week). i was just checking on her to spray her down again and was peting her side and noticed some small black bugs, then i noticed there were a whole lot of them. shes ifested with mites. iv owned reptiles for over 10 years and have NEVER had mites. the only reptiles i have now are 9 snakes, one being a water snake so im not worried about him but i'm almost positive they all have mites. i picked up a few of them and didnt see any but i did notice one or 2 in other cages. some cages i noticed nothing at all but iv heard horrible things about mites, im sure theyv all got them.
as far as a solution im going to start cleaning all snake cages atleast every day and wiping the snakes down with a mite killer.
im not sure if a newer snake brought them in or i passed them myself from holding other reptiles but this has upset me to the point of me thinking i have to get rid of most of them because this might be such a huge hassle. are mites really that hard to get rid of?


   

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