I am freaking out over here. I was changing some water dishes and noticed some flecks floating in the water. Some kinda small bugs. Alot smaller then mites.
Last year I had mites in my bedding and all over my snakes. I only have a small collection o it was easy to completly rid of them all by using nix and getting rid of all the aspen and switching to newspaper.
For some reason I slowly re-introduced aspen to make my setups look a little more natural than newspaper. Now today after seeing the flecks in the water started looking through all the tubs in my rack. And sure enough under the aspen by the waterdishes maybe due to moiture. But there was tons of small bugs. None on the snakes. Smaller then mites and tanish in color and small as a fleck of dust. I really had to look to see them while shining a bright flashlight. These things are so small I cant even photograph them.
Now my collection is getting fairly large and I had to throw out like 100$ worth of aspen. Completly clean everything down and switched to shredded newspaper. Hopefully that rids these buggers, cause they made there way through my whole snake room in like a 2 week period.
Anyone know what these could be? I called the local reptile shop and was told it was some kind of a natural decomposer and harmless to the snakes?
Either way they are gross and had to go.
Anyone have troubles with aspen?
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