anyone know how to get rid of the buggers. 
dont let my babies die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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mites
Pigman723
Sep 16, 2008 06:01 AM
Replies (2)
exitwounds
Sep 16, 2008 07:00 AM
take em out. give em a good soakin and while they soak clean out their cage pretty solidly and put down some new substrate and apply provent-a-mite the stuff is a gift from god. then repeat process in 2 weeks should clear everything up just fine.
drumsforlife5446
Sep 17, 2008 05:12 PM
Try Vegetable Oil. Coat each snake liberally in vegetable oil, let them crawl around the bathtub or sink to avoid a mess. Clean the cage THOROUGHLY, preferably with hot water*. Do the same to anything else like branches or water bowls they have in the cage. Throw out all of the old substate, replace it once you have cleaned the cage. Use the mite stuff named in the other post for extra precautions. Rincse off the snakes, put them back. For the next week, keep using the vegetable oil trick to suffocate the rest that may hatch out. This has always worked for me. I have only needed to do this once and I have never had mites since. Hope this helps
*If you would like, you can add a VERY small percentage of bleach to the water. You may or may not have to do this.
