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Little white bugs Found

diggy415 Jul 31, 2005 07:11 PM

When cleaning out the BPs cage i found tiny little hopping bugs all over the feces. not sure where these came from, but anyone else have these and able to identify are harmful or not??

thnks
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My roomates 1 boa(Flicka),3 corns, 1 cat(Morris) and 1 dog(Chance)

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phwyvern Aug 01, 2005 10:00 AM

>>When cleaning out the BPs cage i found tiny little hopping bugs all over the feces. not sure where these came from, but anyone else have these and able to identify are harmful or not??
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>>thnks

Sound like Springtails...typically harmless though it probably means you have conditions in the cage that are too damp for the bp. Springtails typically live in soil/mulch and eat decaying material so I assume that is the type of substrate you are using rather than carpet or paper?
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PHWyvern

diggy415 Aug 01, 2005 10:50 PM

yes too moist, the darn thing kept spilling over it's water and so had to redo it all and place a rock in bowl hopefully it won't want to soak, even low heavy bowls don't do.
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My roomates 1 boa(Flicka),3 corns, 1 cat(Morris) and 1 dog(Chance)

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