Rescue---Mites and Morph?

[mebigbadbrat]

Hi everyone!

Today I rescued a 336 gram female Mojave ball python. I think she could be hypo as she kinda looks like my hypo Mojave male, but I could be wrong. I popped her and she happens to be a female. The guy sold her to me for $60. I had to take her. I felt horrible seeing her on old wood chips. Well sadly she has mites, hence the extra low price. I came home and applied some dawn dish soap water all over her. Then I soaked her in a tub of warm dish soap water. There was mites all over in the container. She soaked for maybe 30 minutes. Sadly not everything came off. I placed her in a new Pre-sprayed Provent-a-mite tub on a puppy pad with fresh bowl of water. You can feel her back bone and ribs. She is roughly 2-2.5 feet long. Thankfully she is really sweet. The guy was feeding her a frozen mouse every week. I am letting her get settled and will offer her a small rat. Supposedly she is about a year old and was purchased at a pet store. The guy had no idea she was a morph.

My questions are: What else can I do for the mites? She has a few cuts (maybe mouse bites on her belly). Also what morph is she? Just Mojave? Hypo-Mojave? Something else?

I will include a picture in the next comment as it will not let me make the image smaller.

Thank you!
Nichole

[mebigbadbrat]

^^^^Of course she is not in my rack with my other snakes. She is no where near them. I also used nursing gloves when handling her as I don't want to risk the chance of passing mites to my other 6 healthy snakes.

[bcr229]

Keep on as you are for the mite treatment and continue to treat for two months after you find the last mite. I would also spray the clean puppy pads and let them dry to have on hand to replace soiled ones; the female mites will get caught up in it and die when they leave the snake to lay eggs. Also, QT should continue for 90 days after you find the last mite.

Otherwise with time and food she should be fine.

[chrid16371]

My super pastel had mites when I got him and I used provent a mite for enclosure and natural chemistry reptile spray on him. The combination seemed to work really well. The only thing is I only treated for a month and they came back (I caught it before it got bad) so make sure you treat for 2 months like suggested above. Like I said the natural chemistry worked great with the PAM so picking up a bottle of that might be a good idea. It dehydrates them and then you soak your snake after treatment you can see the dead ones just come off in the water. The only thing is if the cuts are fresh then the reptile spray probably wouldn't be a good idea on a unhealed wound.

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[mebigbadbrat]

I will have to take some pictures of her belly to show the cuts. I think they are maybe a week old. I did however spray the puppy pad really good while she was soaking in a tub of dawn dish soap. I feel bad for her but her being a sweetheart is making this so much easier! I have all the time in the world to get her feeling better. I am extremely patient person =D

Thank you all,
Nichole