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I recently, (tonight) discovered mites in one of my Amazon enclosures. I'm new to keeping Amazons, but I've dealt with mites before.
Is there anything that I should know about treating mites, as far as Amazons go? I followed typical mite treatment plans, (cleaning the enclosure, furniture, soaking the snake, etc.)
I maintain a small enough collection that I can treat the entire thing as though every enclosure has mites, just to be on the safe side.
Nothing specific to amazons as far as treating mites. I would recommend using the nix treatment if thats not what you are using. Its by far the most effective way to treat them I have found. Its $20 and you end up with 2 gallons of mite solution. Here is a link to a guy on youtube that has a very detailed video on how to use it. I believe it is in 3 parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqziwNaosQM&feature=related
Thanks for the info! I've got the mite issue isolated to just one enclosure, thankfully, rather than my entire collection.
I just started up my current collection about 6 weeks ago...ordered through one private breeder and one import/export. Guess where the mites came from? Import/export. What's weird is that I ordered multiple snakes, yet only one is infested.
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