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None of my snakes have ever had mites before, I've never had the problem, but I'm staying at my mom's house for the summer and somehow my new borneo male got them! I have been cleaning out his cage everyday and changing the papertowels to try and keep them to a minimum, but they are still there. I went to petco today to try and find some stuff to kill them off with no luck What can I do to get rid of them?!?

I used to use this stuff called repti flea relief. The only problem is your not supposed to get it on the animals head or let it get in water after you spray it cause its poison. There is apparently other stuff you can used that still kills mites but can't harm the snake but that makes now sense to me. Basically I would spray this on my snake, rub it around like shampoo and then wash it off and it had no problems (I had problems with mites on my BRB's but never ST's), and you can see all the mites fall off, dead. Good stuff if you ask me just use it smartly.

Jordan
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"It's my snake, I trained it, so I'm going to eat it!" - Mad Max, The Road Warrior

Hey,
I would say to use Provent-a-Mite. It is available from ProPoducts. Look them up online. It is probably the only commercially availalbe product that I would trust to use on my snakes. Whether they be a Blood or Short-Tail, or a Green Tree Python.

-Angel
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"Until we lose our self, there is no way of finding our self."
-Henry Miller.

This stuff kills them right away.Provent a mite is for keeping them from accouring, if you all ready have them you want black night, one spray does it all.Read the vip mite section.

I thought black knight wasn't available anymore though?

np

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np

Ive been out of town and unable to check back. any how I have had great sucsess with 10% bleach clean cages and wipe animal down with a rag with vegitable oil on it just enough to make animal glissen then use paper towls and very very basic cage set-up reclean cage every other day make sure animal has water (dehidration with mites very easy and dangerous) and recoat if needed every 3-4 days Never had to personally more thaen twice
I personally have only had to use this method twice with seperate new quarantined animals make sure you do everything to that animal last and never go back to other animals they will travel easily
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thanks
Kevin
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