I know this is all done but here is what my mom used to do with ticks on our cats. She would smoosh the fur down with vaseline (not necessary on reptiles), get the tweezer tips hot over a candle and grab the tick with the heated tweezers. Tick lets go, you have tick in tweezers. No more tick on pet. ^_^
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