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My worst fear has finally happened! Our corn snake has mites from a new substrate that we purchased from a local pet store. The problem is that our corn snake is on the first level of our three level "Beardie Condo." Lizzy and Mo also reside in this Condo. Mites can climb so I fear my entire collection is in danger. I thoroughly checked Mo this morning and there are no signs or mites on her. We are going to remove all of our animals from this room (2 bearded dragons, 2 rats, a ball python and the infected corn snake). I have read about a lot of products, including the Black Knight spray that ProExotics.com sells for $20 a can. They say it's not harmful to snakes, only geckos and sensitive amphibians like frogs. It doesn't say if it's harmful for my beardies.

Does anyone know of a good way to get rid of mites that doesn't harm snakes, beardies or rats? Any advice would be very helpful. And I need to make temporary homes for my two adult beardies for a few days. Any ideas on how to do that? Large Rubbermaid bins?

Thanks!

Veronica
Beautiful Dragons

>>My worst fear has finally happened! Our corn snake has mites from a new substrate that we purchased from a local pet store. The problem is that our corn snake is on the first level of our three level "Beardie Condo." Lizzy and Mo also reside in this Condo. Mites can climb so I fear my entire collection is in danger. I thoroughly checked Mo this morning and there are no signs or mites on her. We are going to remove all of our animals from this room (2 bearded dragons, 2 rats, a ball python and the infected corn snake). I have read about a lot of products, including the Black Knight spray that ProExotics.com sells for $20 a can. They say it's not harmful to snakes, only geckos and sensitive amphibians like frogs. It doesn't say if it's harmful for my beardies.
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>>Does anyone know of a good way to get rid of mites that doesn't harm snakes, beardies or rats? Any advice would be very helpful. And I need to make temporary homes for my two adult beardies for a few days. Any ideas on how to do that? Large Rubbermaid bins?
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>>Thanks!
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>>Veronica
>>Beautiful Dragons
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Lisa
www.beginnersbasics.com

Cricket FREE babies!

darn...was reading or talking about this very thing yesterday, just can't remember if it was on teh cornsnake forum, ball python forum or yesterday's reptile chat...wish I could remember all the recommendations but right now my mind is blank...

Hi
here a link to help you !!

byeeeeee
http://www.anapsid.org/mites.html

the pro exotic web site has a lot of good info. I have been using black knight for about a year and have not seen any mites since our first treatment. the one thing to remember is that black knight will KILL ALL BUGS including crix. that means feeding in a seperate enclosure not exposed to the black knight. remember mites crawl in a straight line at a speed of 40 feet an hour. so when you treat, make sure you cover enough area. mites will reproduce every 30 days but without a host will die. so treat every 30 days. 3 times should do it.

good luck

BTW thanks for all the wonderful research you did for your site, best site on the web for info about feeding dragons
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Bennett

www.beardiedragon.com