Ive never seen parasitic mites on a monitor. Ive seen them on a few types of lizards kept in really bad petstores or from really bad dealers. Almost every mite Ive seen was on snakes, an agamid I bought once had them, I cleaned the animal up and returned it with advice to the store which didnt care at all.

If the individual is worried then they should be more worried about a monitor WC that transfers some disease not parasites possibly to a snake. Its very rare that that can happen, but you could get struck by lightning a few times beforehand.

Ticks on WC monitors can attach to snakes Im sure, not positive, havent noticed many.

Also depends where you get your info from,the individuals who write about alot of it or tell you to be so paranoid with these things have many many worse other problems that are the causes of their losses.

I notice every year the pattern, new keepers take a while to finally convince that they need to keep their monitor acertain way, then they are trying to nit-pick at that husbandry trying to find reasons to go back to what they were doing (the unsucessful way, because it was published in a book), one way is to point at the little bugs in dirt and call them mites (parasitic), just thought Id bring this up, that time is here on all the forums.

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