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jmadams13
at Mon Jul 9 17:19:09 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jmadams13 ]
Heres the situation. Doing normal herp room checks and found 95% (around 300 snakes) of collection to have a serious mite infestation. My question to all of you is not how to get rid of them, thats not the problem. My concern is how they got here. Nothing new has came into my collection in over three months, and that stuff is still in the quarantine room. I follow strict quarantine procedures (last touched, no tools leave room, shower after handling/feeding/cleaning/etc... and what not.) The only thing that has changed is my rodent supplier. Last week I received a huge shipment of rats and mice. They were all still frozen when they arrived. All rodent eaters have mites now. The 5% with no mites are the rabbit eaters. Is it remotely possible that the mites came on the frozen rodents. I was pretty sure freezing killed off the mites and eggs. If I had a snake with them before, I'm sure I would have seen it before It got this bad. Any ideas?
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 Mites and freezing - jmadams13, Mon Jul 9 17:19:09 2007
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