Where does one get mites from?
Im a fairly new in the hobby, AND I want to completely avoid this.
If anyone can shed ( no pun ) some light on this subject, it would much appreciated.
I currently own (1) pastel female (800g), (1) albino female (370g), (1) pied female (780g)
Thanks...:confused:
Re: Where does one get mites from?
reptile mites, I believe (correct me if I am wrong), are not indiginous to the US, and come over when wild caught animals are imported.
They are able to breed and spread throughout collections as well, so if one reptile in a pet store or collection has mites, they may spread.
Mite eggs can lay dormant for some time, and can cling to substrate, clothing, etc.
This is one reason why quarantining new pets for a couple months is a good idea, if any of them have mites, you can catch it and not have to worry about them getting outside of your quarantine room.
Re: Where does one get mites from?
Just walking into a petstore can get you Mites. Imagine some mite eggs getting stuck on you shoe then you track them home.
If you get mites just use some Provent a mite. Its the best stuff out there.
Mites are not that big of a deal.
Re: Where does one get mites from?
snake mites only come from other snakes that are infested. However when it comes time to lay their eggs they will drop off the host and wander away and find some really tight crack to wedge themselves into to lay their eggs. So yes, you can bring mite eggs home with you on supplys that you've bought at a pet store that may have snakes that are infested with mites.
When the eggs hatch they're like little blood hounds and can smell snakes from quite a distance away and will make a direct bee line for them
I help out a lot with reptile rescue with my local herp society. (I've been a long time member of the adoption committee) and remember one time a boa coming in that was the most infested animal I've ever seen. There was a roll of paper towels sitting outside of the cage it was being treated in, and within a very few days the end of the paper towel roll had many brown concentric circles going completely or mostly around the end of it. Upon closer examination those brown circles were completely made up of snake mites that had wedged themselves in between the plys of paper on that roll of paper towels. There were SO many of them wedged in there that they made several complete circles on the edge, it was just creepy. I wish I'd thought to take a picture of it.
Re: Where does one get mites from?
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mainbutter
reptile mites, I believe (correct me if I am wrong), are not indiginous to the US, and come over when wild caught animals are imported.
They are able to breed and spread throughout collections as well, so if one reptile in a pet store or collection has mites, they may spread.
Mite eggs can lay dormant for some time, and can cling to substrate, clothing, etc.
This is one reason why quarantining new pets for a couple months is a good idea, if any of them have mites, you can catch it and not have to worry about them getting outside of your quarantine room.
Actually, they are not indiginous to Africa. Animals are brought over with ticks, but not mites. Mites are generally spread from one animal to another, or by someone carrying mites in on them after handling another animal with mites.
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