If the bags are 100% sealed in melted end plastic bags that is generally true, but if there are tears in the bag and the store has a mite problem, it can't be guaranteed that no mites could crawl into the bags.



I know a girl that bought some huge bags of aspen from someone that had them stored in the same area as their snakes, and she discovered that mites were in the bags she had from this source and they were later everywhere in her collection. Those big paper bags have all sorts of nooks and crannies that tiny mites can crawl into if they want to.



I can only go by what she told me, and it is always possible that she could have gotten some mite-infested snakes or equipment from somewhere else, but this is still a very good possibility that this is exactly how it happened too,....hard to say. Those little bastards can hide anywhere if you aren't real careful about preventing this from happening in the first place. Heck, even a plastic bag of substrate that is COMPLETELY sealed could possibly have mites on the outside of it if the place they were gotten doesn't take proper steps to make sure they never enter the store. That is always a scary scenario!...arrrgh!!!



I have been very fortunate for decades regarding those gross little creepy crawlies..LOL!







~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"





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• substrate and mites - bigtman, Fri Oct 14 19:55:38 2011
• RE: substrate and mites - joecop, Fri Oct 14 20:33:00 2011
• RE: substrate and mites - bigtman, Fri Oct 14 22:40:50 2011
• RE: substrate and mites - Fatman608, Fri Oct 14 23:51:30 2011
• simple!........ - DMong, Sat Oct 15 01:11:26 2011
• LOL! - a153fish, Sat Oct 15 09:42:36 2011
• RE: LOL! - DMong, Sat Oct 15 14:18:05 2011
• RE: LOL! - a153fish, Sat Oct 15 14:52:29 2011
• RE: LOL! - DMong, Sat Oct 15 16:50:41 2011
• RE: LOL! - bigtman, Sat Oct 15 17:02:55 2011
• RE: LOL! - DMong, Sat Oct 15 18:20:52 2011
• RE: LOL! - bigtman, Sat Oct 15 16:28:33 2011
• Yeah - a153fish, Sun Oct 16 10:24:53 2011
• RE: LOL! - varanid, Sun Oct 16 00:17:28 2011
• RE: substrate and mites - okeeteekid, Sat Oct 15 14:25:10 2011
• RE: substrate and mites - okeeteekid, Sat Oct 15 14:31:31 2011
• RE: substrate and mites - joecop, Sat Oct 15 16:49:33 2011
• RE: substrate and mites - bigtman, Sat Oct 15 16:58:49 2011
• RE: substrate and mites - markg, Sun Oct 16 13:24:37 2011