A long while back after I first set up my brev tank i could have SWORN I saw a small white fleck run under the substrate in the tank... I watched for probably ten min after that and saw nothing, so figured it was ok... All of the substrate was clean when I put it in... the only thing I can think of that may have had mites is the roots from the plants I put in... I thought I had cleaned them well enough but may not have.
Tonight I was looking into the tank trying to decide what to do with it if anything, and I saw the same thing - a white little fleck ran into the dirt. I looked for a while after that and disturbed the top part of a few spots, but couldn't see anything else. I am wondering if this is going to be a problem... I did buy some more bark (I had wanted to anyway, and after this little girl and her dirt I ended up getting some more) but want to know if i should tear the enclosure apart and bake everything first. And, if I do, would I just do the fibre portion, or take out the perlite and charcoal layers and bake them also??
Thanks for the advice
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~Lindsay
0.1 panther chameleon (Orion)
1.2 r. brevicaudatus chams (unnamed)
0.1 leopard gecko (Acadia)
1.0 pictus gecko (Raine)
1.1 parakeets (Bongo/Citron)
1.1 cats (Tigger/Bonzai)
1.0 dwarf hampster (Chico the monster)
someday will have 1.1 great danes (will be Osiris and Solaris)
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I've seen the same thing in ReptiBark. They are mites, but not the type of mites that live on reptiles. These seem to be plant mites of some type. Lizard mites usually have an orange color, very similar to the little orange no-see-ums that bite us.
Cricket
Should I just leave them then??
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~Lindsay
0.1 panther chameleon (Orion)
1.2 r. brevicaudatus chams (unnamed)
0.1 leopard gecko (Acadia)
1.0 pictus gecko (Raine)
1.1 parakeets (Bongo/Citron)
1.1 cats (Tigger/Bonzai)
1.0 dwarf hampster (Chico the monster)
someday will have 1.1 great danes (will be Osiris and Solaris)
I've also noticed similar things on the surface of the soil of the trees in my three veileds' enclosures. Mostly isolated to one plant, with quite a few, but theyre also on the cage floor. I don't see them unless i look very very closely. They're a grey-ish white and seem to feed on poo. They're about 1 mm long (duno what that is in inches, for the metrically challenged).
I saw a good 20 or 30 of them on one turd that was there a couple of days so i vacuumed the crap out of the top layer of soil and didn't see any more for a good few weeks.
