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Posted a message a few days ago thinking my Beaked Snake had mites....I am still un sure (even though I am undergoing treatment). I have inspected all my snakes, a few up close and personal (my ball, andean, and diamond). I don't see anything anywhere on them. I especially paid attention to the eyes, chin scalation, vents, and nasal pits. Examining the aspen substrates in their enclosures reveals what I believe to be a small number of springtails and a few tiny bugs that I do believe are a type of mite. I just do not think they are snake mites. None that I see are black and they are so tiny you cant even squash them with your fingers. Prob just come in the cheap aspen I buy at Petco. Maybe I jumped the gun, but I am still freaked out. None of my water bowls have black specks all over them either. What do you think??????
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1.0 Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake
1.0 Black Tailed Cribo
1.0 Andean Milksnake
1.0 Desert Horned Viper
1.0 Red Spitting Cobra
0.1 75%Diamond Python/25% Jungle Carpet Python
0.1 Taiwan Beauty Snake
1.0 Ball Python (over 20 years old)
1.0 Rufous Beaked Snake
Brazilian White-Knee Tarantula
Green Bottle Blue Tarantula

I think this was a false alarm. There are thousands up thousands of mite species and they are common nearly everywhere. Only a handfull are parasitic to reptiles.

Ian