I have used No Pest Strips on several occassions to eliminate mites. However do so with care. I recently posted about the Green Burm with Neurological problems. It was due to No Pest Strips. I had cut a piece about1/4 of an inch by 1 inch and placed it in a film container within his cage. He was about 3 ft long and healthy. After 2 weeks his is about to be euthanized. He has no control over his movements at all... He bites himself and is basically gone... he cannot eat ... he latched onto a f/t rat but cannot control his mouth well enough to work it down.
No Pest Strips have killed this snake. While they do kill mites, The can kill your reptiles.. USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION
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No Pest Strips for Mites can Kill HERPS!
safaritom
Apr 05, 2007 02:04 PM
Replies (2)
Kelly_Haller
Apr 05, 2007 05:00 PM
Are you saying that you left the section of pest strip in the cage for 2 weeks?
Kelly
FRoberts
Apr 17, 2007 11:57 PM
While I have not used no pest strips (shell) since the early 80's and they are also hard to come by with the old ingredients (2,2 dichclorovinyl dimethyl phosphate)I would suggest using more modern available products like (pro-vent- a mite etc...). But as a side note, I have used in the past with no ill effects on my snakes, although I always removed water bowls and suspended the product in perforated film canisters in a ventiliated cage for NO more than 24 hours than repeat 2 weeks later and once again 2 week later for good measure. I also soaked and bleached all water bowls etc...This product should no longer be used with such advanced products available for the proper captive husbandry and elimination / eradication of any vector parasitism in any persons collection, also in my success's with this product the animals never came in direct contact and or where they exposed to long term inhalation. I have seen people kill there snakes due to improper usuage of this product usually related to no ventilation and more commonly prolonged exposure (never more than 24 hours in treatment time elapsed)
Below is a good link to a PDF file regarding this product.
No good reason to use in this day and age.
Vapona
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Thanks,
Frank Roberts
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