I recently picked up a new female blood python (approx. 1 year old) from a private owner, she appears a bit unhealthy to me, she is peaked at the spine and I later found out she came to me with mites. Previous owner said she was feeding her mice, I switched her to rats for the nutrition and am in the process of treating her and her terrarium for mites along with raising her humidity higher than it was. Does anyone have any advice on other helpful tips to make her healthy again?
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New Blood
courtney2008
Oct 11, 2010 01:57 AM
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hayseed
Oct 11, 2010 12:57 PM
Do you have other reptiles? Do you have the new girl in quarentine?
The first thing would be, definitely, to get the mites under control. If she has mites, that definitely trumps any other health issues, and can quickly spread to all your other reptiles.
Have you ever dealt with mites? There's lots of good info out there, or you can ask here, but I'd get onto dealing with the mites ASAP.
Provent-a-Mite (PAM) seems to be the favorite of most but others have used Nix and some use a product called "de-flea".
