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ive seen waht i beleive are mits on my snake i know they are bad how do i get rid of them

Go out and buy some sevin dust at any place that sells garden supplies,Walmart,Kmart,etc.Get the 5% ratio.Give your snake a good soaking then dust your snake with the sevin dust,keep outa eyes mouth etc.Then clean your cage out,get all the reptilebark,hide logs,water bowls out.Now clean the enclosure good and sprinkle sevin dust in the bottom then a layer of newspaper.If your using any wood products,hides etc,bake them in an oven for an hour at 250.Now sprinkle sevin dust under,at the top,around your enclosure.Wont hurt to sprinkle around the entire area including the carpet.Dont worry it sweeps up and it wont kill you or your snake.Let this stand for 3 days then clean up the mess you made.Now repeat steps above one week later and then one more time the next week.You can put in the waterbowl and food inbetween treatments.Personally if it's not a juvie i use no-pest strips but i dont feel like being flamed in 100 posts....Good Luck ..Paul..

We use the no-pest strips at work and have not had mite problems since we started keeping a small (1" peice on top of every cage about a year and a half ago. You don't want to use in on babies becuase it kills about 1/4 of them so is not worth the risk.
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