I had posted about mites back in Oct and think it was just a false call.....now i have just recently seen black mites on my spitter. The other day I found like 6 of them drowned in the water....when they pop, the fluid is more of a chalky grey color than blood (even if you pop a live one). They are black, have a whitish spot on top and more white on the bottom. I took all the aspen out of the enclosure and only found one on the cage floor. I inspect all my snakes daily and see nothing by any of there mouths or heat pits, nostrils, ect. I am treating the spitter as I write this but I still think it is a false call. Anyone ever run into mites that look like this?? I have popped about a half dozen and it never looks like blood...plus the whitish spots are throwing me off....HELP!!!!!!
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