Has anyone heard of using hypoaspis miles mites as a mite killer I just placed a order for 7500 of these lil bugs to for my poor snake and lizard bug issue.... As of last week I found a massive amout of mites on my columbian and rainbow boas. I have 3 panther chameleon cages in the same room and due to the sensitivty of them i did not want to use chemicals. I did some research and seen people talking about "hypoaspis miles mites" in a few reptile forums. I was wondering if people have had sucsess with them or did i make a mistake and now just going to add to the problem.... per what people say both in the forums and the lab im buying them from say they kill and eat the pest mites and eggs then when they run out of those they eat eachother and die off as well.
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ever heard of using hypoaspis mile mites
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Down a few threads someone has remarked that they were successfull with them. Good luck and let us know if they work for you.
Ian
haven't had a mite issue in years *knocking on wood* but let us know how it works for you!
do you have a link for where you got them, may be helpful to other forum users, were they expensive?
the more info we share the better for our animals and our hobby!
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they seem to be disappearing but and my columbian boa who had them the worse seems to be caming back to her normal self. they were not cheap tho compared to things like pam or peststrips. but if spending $25 extra $50 total saved any of my animals that would had been ensitive to chemicals then it was worth it. I will post more later and update if they are all gone and if it worked.
Whoo hooo all gone.... they worked but 2 weeks later now I'm not seeing anymore but I'm going to do a big clean on Saturday and going to p.a.m. the cages to be safe but wow I hope we never have to do this again.
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Tom C.
0.1.0 emerald tree boa "cleopatra"
1.3.0 albino nelsons milk snake "no names yet"
1.2.0 panther chameleons "princess,daddy,pinky"
0.0.1 columbian boa "etna"
0.0.1 red bearded dragon "spike"
0.0.1 tokay gecko "noisy"
0.0.1 golden gecko "24k"
0.0.1 savannah monitor "dicky"
0.0.1 leopord gecko "spot"
0.1.0 pit bull dog "coco"
0.1.0 mixed toy dog "hyde"
2.0.0 mixed cats "poofy and peaches"
0.0.1 blue and gold macaw "buddy"
0.0.5 marble angel fish
Whoo hooo all gone.... they worked but 2 weeks later now I'm not seeing anymore but I'm going to do a big clean on Saturday and going to p.a.m. the cages to be safe but wow I hope we never have to do this again.
