I just got a granite spiny lizard and I just realized he has mites, poor guy. I will be moving back home from college and I do not want them to spread to my snake that lives at my home, and I was wondering what advice you guys have. The lizard has very spiny scales, and there is plenty of space under each scale, even some of the ones on his head, for mites to hide and I am very worried about how I will treat him. He is a desert lizard and needs to be kept very warm and freaks out when he gets wet. I am going to take him to a friend's house until I can get him taken care of, but I live in a dorm room and all of my clothes and pillows and stuff (mattress thankfully is staying here) are in the same room as the lizard tank. How do you recommend I go about getting the mites out of my clothes and what type of items should I keep quarantined? How long should I keep my stuff quarantined and if I put them in the basement, will that suffice? If I put the lizard tank in a room for one day, do you think they will crawl out and get in the house of my friend? I do not wish to make them clean their whole house after the lizard is treated the next day. Any advice you can offer would help. Thank you so much in advance to whoever can reply and offer help. My email is tnluthin@gmail.com just in case it's not visible (I'm new here so I dont know how it works). The lizard seems otherwise healthy and he eats very well.
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Granite Spiny with mites -- HELP please!
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Keep the individual away from other pets and get you some Prevent A Mite, the stuff works wanders
Foot Hill Reptiles
The mites that are on your S. orcutti are specific to lizards so they will not transfer to your snake, regardless to get rid of them I use something called black knight. The only place I've found it is online but it is amazing stuff only attacking invertebrates leaving vertebrates alone. Warning, if you have any invert pets treat you animals outside because if they are in the same room as the treated animal they will die to. I've never used the prevent a mite so that mite work just as well.
Are you sure they won't transfer to snakes. Seems to me they would very easily. Both those products work very well. Just follow instructions on can exactly or you can kill the animal.
Mites are generally species specific, The only lizards that also get snake mites are Skinks I believe, there could be more but mites from a spiny lizard should be nothing to worry about.
