I was completely enraged a few nights ago, to the point I was in tears. I came home and noticed that Bela and Gobby were both soaking in their water bowls; definately NOT normal. Well, upon closer inspection I saw some MITES on them. I swear, I had tears in my eyes; usually I am not an emotional person but this just hit me like a ton of bricks.
I had started using aspen roughly 2 weeks ago; it could have been the cause of this. I noticed the bag was opened at the store (actually it is the best herp store in Buffalo in my opinion, not mentioning the name.) I thought nothing of it, and just asked the lady to tape the bag shut. Well that might not have been the cause; come to find out, one of the snakes I was handling at a different store, had mites.. I bet the little suckers got on my sleeve or something.. let me tell you guys, I don't claim to be perfect. But my snakes have the best care available and this just floored me. I want to tell everyone a Thousand times; don't handle snakes from anyplace, period. Look what can happen; I had no idea.
I completely tore down all four of my tanks, bleached the hell out of them, and treated everyone with Preventamite. They are all sitting on fresh clean newspaper; ugly but effective.
I never thought this could happen to me..
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