(you might see this repeated on other forums, im desperate for answers)
a few days ago i noticed one of my red tail boas skin looked really saggy and her scales looked funny and were dry. i thought maybe she was having sheding problems and for some reason got very dehydrated so iv been spraying her cage often and give her fresh water more often (usually clean water bowls once a week). i was just checking on her to spray her down again and was peting her side and noticed some small black bugs, then i noticed there were a whole lot of them. shes ifested with mites. iv owned reptiles for over 10 years and have NEVER had mites. the only reptiles i have now are 9 snakes, one being a water snake so im not worried about him but i'm almost positive they all have mites. i picked up a few of them and didnt see any but i did notice one or 2 in other cages. some cages i noticed nothing at all but iv heard horrible things about mites, im sure theyv all got them.
as far as a solution im going to start cleaning all snake cages atleast every day and wiping the snakes down with a mite killer.
im not sure if a newer snake brought them in or i passed them myself from holding other reptiles but this has upset me to the point of me thinking i have to get rid of most of them because this might be such a huge hassle. are mites really that hard to get rid of?
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mites, please help
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Go to WalMart, buy a couple cans of their Equate brand bed lice spray. Cheap, but same active ingredients as the expensive mite spray. Remove averything from the cage, spray heavily inside AND outside the cage. Let it dry, put clean substrate (and water bowl) in, then the snake. Remove the substrate (and dead mites) the next day and replace. Repeat in 2 weeks. You can soak the snake if you wish, but the spray will kill the mites anyway. When the snakes sheds, get rd of the old skin quickly. Watch other cages, if you have any. Those little black poppy seeds can crawl 50 feet in an hour!
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