We've had Carmen for five weeks. First had her on cypress mulch on top of repti carpet, but the humidity was too high, so scooped out the mulch and replaced it with aspen (from the same bag that Cleo has in her viv).

At about week 2, I found a rather large round black bug crawling on my hand while I was holding Carmen. Squish - blood. But saw NOTHING else, either on Carmen (she is nearly impossible to search for "small black dots" because she is covered in "small black dots" naturally =P) nor nothing we could see in her viv.

We've been vigilant (looking Carmen over carefully, checking her water bowl when we change it everyday) - nothing.

About week 3, I saw another bug, this time smaller, definitely mite-like, but again, saw NOTHING else. None around her eyes, none in the mental groove (that's what that is called, right?), none in the water, moving in the aspen - nothing.

Yesterday, I found another one, this one on her. Squish - blood. Again, nothing else could be seen.

Today, she was basking/hunting and I noticed some white specks on her. From the light and her location over the water bowl, I assumed they were water droplets from a swim I assume she had just had. Well, I just changed her water today and got her out for a few minutes and I found THREE mites on her. Again, nothing in the water bowl, nothing on any of the viv furniture nor any I can see on the aspen, none around her eyes, mouth or vent...

But she's got mites, right?

We've got Provent a mite and Repti Relief ready just in case and are planning on proceeding with cleaning her with the RR and the cage with PAM (with FULL procautions of using PAM)...but the white specks are eggs, yah?

After I put her back in her viv, I threw my clothes in the laundry and took a shower so I won't spread any to Cleo (Carmen is in our bedroom upstairs, Cleo is downstairs in the living room).