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has anyone used RID on their cages? Last year someone mentioned that RID lice spray had the same ingredients of proventamite.
Has anyone used this product safely with their reptiles?
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****Misty****

www.sneakyserpents.com

"Life is Killing Me"

I'd be very careful.

EBV use to recommend a product not intended for reptiles that worked. Then it was reformulated, and those who use it and didn't know the ingredients changed ended up with dead snakes.

To me it just isn't worth it to use something cheaper but isn't intented for reptile market for that reason. The manufacturer doesn't take reptiles into consideration, and can (and sometimes do) reformulate in devestating ways.
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11.14 L. getula californiae (Cal. King)
2.3 L. getula nigrita (MBK)
1.0 L. getula floridana (Brooksi)
1.1 Pantherophis guttatus guttatus (Corn)
0.1 Pituophis catenifer catenifer (Pacific gopher)
0.1 Heterodon nasicus nasicus (W Hognose)
4.2.14 Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata - (Cal. Alligator Lizard)

I have not used RID but have used NIX. NIX is available at your local drug store and is used for head lice, crabs, etc. I have asthma and allergies so using products like PAM is just not an option. It's safe when used properly. If you want the details, email me and I'll send you my phone number and we can talk.
Take care
John Q

I use it and I have never had a problem just make sure you let it DRY for sure before you put your snake back in.

snakes to much to list.

Bushhill Reptiles
Colby

I have never used the spry version yet however, I have used the shampoo for these pests. I first used RID Lice Shampoo for mites in 1997. After a sever case of mites I got from live feeder rodents, I had to erradicate them from my entire collection which at the time consisted of several boas, some green tree pythons, a couple of kingsnkes and a couple of cornsnakes. After several trials with the shampoo to determine the strength that I wanted, I came up with a solution of 50 dorps of RID to 16oz of semi-warm water. I applied this directy to the snakes working against the scales (do not leave it on them for more than five minutes as I mistakenly did the first time) and then rinse the snakes down. The solution can also be used to spray down the enclosure and then wiped out with a dry cloth. Ir you are using newspaper, you can apply a fine mist of the spray between one of the layers before you put the snakes back into their enclosure. This worked great and I was clear of the mites after two applications. You can also use this solution or make it stronger to spray the floor and other areas around your cages to kill off any mites that are hiding outside the enclosures (I strongly recommended you get these area around your enclosure as well since mites are know to pack up and travel across rooms).

Chris

Your reply stated: "I applied this directy to the snakes working against the scales (do not leave it on them for more than five minutes as I mistakenly did the first time) and then rinse the snakes down." So I wondered what happened when you left it on for more than five minutes? Brain damage, death, grumpy snakes?
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