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Krystal19_85
at Tue Oct 5 12:35:18 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Krystal19_85 ]
Thanks to all of you who posted and e-mailed me with advice. The Mites never got to my other BP, thank goodness! We decided to use the Reptile Relief that my fiance picked up, so this is how we did it.
Day 1: Warm bath with drop of soap.... sprayed some of the RR in the bottom of a tub, put her in and gave her a squirt... my fiance made sure she had the RR all over while I cleaned her cage with the RR, making sure it was rinsed well. Replaced her paper-towl and hides with new clean ones and left her water dish out.
Still saw mites, some live, some dead.
Day 2: Warm bath with a drop of soap.... rubbed down with olive oil... paper-towl and hides replaced again.
Still saw mites, most dead.
Day 3: Warm bath with a drop of soap.... rubbed down with olive oil... paper-towl and hides replaced again, water dish cleaned and reinserted.
Didn't see any mites.
Day 4: Still don't see any mites.
Day 5: Still no sign of any mites.
She seems to be more active than normal and I think (I know she is a snake and they are never "tame" she knows we got rid of those nasty things for her and the handling actually made her know we aren't going to hurt her (I have never seen a BP so people friendly, even my EXTREEMLY docile male jumps if you get too close to his head and tries to hide when you go to pick him up out of his cage). Now every time we look into her tank, she comes out of her hide and comes right up to the glass. My fiance is amazed at how much she acts like a dog LOL. She goes in her hide and lays her head out, she lays her head on her mid-body alot, and when we were trying to get a mite off of her chin she kinda looked like a cat when you scratch their chin (amazingly she didn't jump!). We are SO glad we treated her and didn't take her back. She is so beautiful and lively! I just wish we could find a place that sells live pinky rats or hopper mice. We got a small mouse and it was just too big for her and we got F/T pinky rats, but she treated them like they were rocks and just slithered right over them like they werent there, didn't even flick her tongue!
Again thanks to those who helped. All looks succesful so far!
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 UPDATE: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! Some suggestions please. - Krystal19_85, Tue Oct 5 12:35:18 2004
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