This morning when I was feeding Drake I noticed a little whitey yellowish bug thing running off his head, I tried to catch it and I couldn't. what is this and can those things get on me and live on me too since i saw it I have been itching like crazy.
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Creepy little white bug thngs
spyro
Oct 19, 2003 07:53 AM
Replies (3)
JoeyP
Oct 19, 2003 08:32 PM
How small was it? What time of substrate are you using. Eco-Earth tends to have lots of very small (supposedly harmless) mites in it.
lissag25
Oct 19, 2003 10:39 PM
if i remember correctly eco-earth can have little white bugs that develop when it remains wet for long periods of time.. they might be grain mites.. teeny tiny white bugs.. they are harmless.
rick gordon
Oct 20, 2003 12:18 PM
There are good mites and there are bad mites the good ones live in soil mostly but sometimes get on the lizards to eat dead skin. The lizards usually appreciate this assitance with their molting.The bad ones suck blood and untreated can eventully be fatal. The blood sucking kind with turn red when engorged with blood and live in folds around the eyes and mouth, nostrils. If you have those then you want to empty the cage of any subtrate, cook or destroy any driftwood and hang a mite strip until they are gone.
