>>Were they exposed to No Pest Strip?



During all my years breeding hondurans and other Colubrids I used pest strips routinely. There was always a relatively fresh one kept in each of my two rooms. More recently i have a pet baby splendida and found mites that i think were coming from the substrate (pine shavings). This snake was in a small plastic terrarium and i aired-out a pest strip for several days, then cut out a couple-square-inch piece of the rubbery strip and set it directly on top of the ventilated lid. The mites are gone and the baby splendida has become a very robust subadult in just three months. I also bred birds for two decades. One of my specialties was the Gouldian Finch, which falls prey to "air sac mites" that inhabit the hollows in the birds' bones, making the mites harder to access and eradicate. I'd put afflicted birds in a small cage, put a pest strip on top of the cage, and cover it with a towel to confine the fumes. If the bird was "on the nest" i'd sometimes move the nest with hatchlings into this treatment regimen along with the parents. I'm not saying it couldn't happen, but i never saw an adverse reaction to this use of pest strips for either birds or snakes.

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