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negatronix
at Thu Feb 7 18:56:19 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by negatronix ]
I bought the strips at Home Depot. They cost about $5 bucks. Be careful if you use these. Make sure to have good airflow for the tortoise, and DO NOT leave the strips in or around the cage for more than 8hrs. These strips will cause kidney damage if the tortoise is exposed for too long. Big Apple Herp also sells a "No-Pest-Strip". They advertise here, I think.
It would probably be safer to move the tortoise overnight, replace the bedding, and use the strip without the tortoise in the cage. This should eliminate anything left in the cage, or around it.
The bedding that I am using holds the humidity much higher than the Cypress mulch did. I find that I am spraying it once per day instead of 2 or 3 times. I am also using T-Rex Biomist which really helps hold the moisture in as well. It kind of builds up the more you use it.
You may want to just change the bedding etc.. and see if that helps with the bugs before exposing your tortoise to anything that can harm him. I was treating mites with the strips on some wild caught Chuckwallas, and used the strips as a precaution for everything in my collection to be safe. I then used them again to treat the little bugs that showed up on a few occasions.
Be careful, and feel free to ask if you have any other questions. You may also want to see if anyone else here posts about using these strips. I would hate to give any bad advice to you, especially if someone else has more experience with these strips around tortoises. The person that told me about using the strips runs a reptile shop and keeps a few in the store at all times.
-Kory
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RE: little bugs in my indoor tort enclosure - negatronix, Thu Feb 7 18:56:19 2008