How long for mite spray to take effect?

[Bruce Whitehead]

I just acquired two surrender BCIs that have mites. I treated their enclosures last night and am wondering how long till they can be dealt with again without having live mites running around?

I would like to remove them, clean their enclosures, wipe them down, etc. Just not sure how long I need to wait first?

Thanks in advance,
Bruce

[RichardA]

Depends on the spray. Some stuff is almost instant, some takes a few days to kill them all off.

[Bruce Whitehead]

I used Black Knight... (PAM isn't legal for sale in Canada yet).

Bruce

[RichardA]

Should take effect within a few hours.

[Pandora]

I used Black Knight... (PAM isn't legal for sale in Canada yet).

Bruce

I bought PAM just last month from a reptile store and I've seen it all around Petsmart...
If you want to treat the snakes immediately, soak them in water with mild soap. As well, get something by Zoomed called Mite Off. It's safe to use on the actual snake and the Mites will disappear within 48 hours. It's the only thing that got mites off Pandora when she had them.

[Bruce Whitehead]

I bought PAM just last month from a reptile store and I've seen it all around Petsmart...

I found it after I had posted that. I think perhaps it is that there is no official distributor in CA and it has to be ordered direct from the States. I know it is pricier, but not a problem, when the reptile place near me gets their next shipment I will be in line.

I used a full can of mite spray just on the preventative sprays once I realized just how bad these two snakes were.

Getting mites in the midst of a move was just not my idea of fun, nor was having mites from two such sick snakes...

Bruce

[Pandora]

I found it after I had posted that. I think perhaps it is that there is no official distributor in CA and it has to be ordered direct from the States. I know it is pricier, but not a problem, when the reptile place near me gets their next shipment I will be in line.

I used a full can of mite spray just on the preventative sprays once I realized just how bad these two snakes were.

Getting mites in the midst of a move was just not my idea of fun, nor was having mites from two such sick snakes...

Bruce

Glad you didn't resort to ordering it from the states!
I'm sorry to hear things turned out the way they did.
Luckily I caught them on Pandora early and she's just one snake and I thought that was enough of a headache to deal with:
I hope this doesn't happen again, sorry for the trouble you had to go through

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Should take a few hours, on another not, I would HIGHLY recommend you to treat the rest of your collection as well if you have not done so already.

[Bruce Whitehead]

I think I will do that as well (treat the rest of the collection), I had a pretty clean line into the house and then into QT being as the snakes were a bit dubious in origin.

I sprayed around my racks as well, and then sprayed the areas the snakes were in on their way into QT.

As well, I did all my snake care before these guys came into the house, and then didn't touch them today at all before attending to my guys.

As well I stripped off all my clothes and bagged them into pretreated garbage bags ater transferring them. They only came out of their holding containers (pre treated as well) once they got into QT and were being transferred.

Bruce

[waltah!]

How are those boas doing now, Bruce?