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RE: A few questions about mite treatments.

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Posted by: DMong at Tue May 29 14:14:20 2012   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]  
   

Yeah, proper ventilation and no water for a good 24 hrs. with that stuff is EXTREMELY important to keep in mind if one plans to use it.

In the 70's I used Sevin dust and it worked fabulously. But again, it has to be used in an absolutely bone dry environment and NO water bowl to get contaminated..LOL!

Luckily, with the exception of treating a couple hatchlings I picked up at a show for nothing some years back, the last time I remember ever having to deal with any mites was back in the early 70's when me and a few other neighborhood buddies kept a few of our snakes together in a huge cage under old lawnmower grass clippings. Ironically I had a Florida king and some of the other kids had stuff like corns and yellow rats in their too. Maybe a racer or water snake in their as well as i recall. Gosh, I think one dude had his snake eaten by my king as I recall and he was all bent out of shape..LOL!!.........oh well!!

Dude, when we discovered that mites were crawling all over our snakes like tiny army infantry's, it was time to break-out the serious BIG GUNS and wage all-out WAR on those little Ba$tards..LOL!




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