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white bugs and eggs?!?!?!

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  • 01-19-2013, 06:39 PM
    zumTod076
    white bugs and eggs?!?!?!
    i bought this awesome pvc enclosure from a petstore
    today i started "modding it" you could say
    tearing off the screen top to put solid top on....
    i cleaned this cage with a bleach solution right when i brought it home hot water and scrubbed the eff out of it.
    the cage has been in another room seperate from my snakes since i got it
    as im tearing up the screen and the pvc strips over the screen edges i see....
    THESE LITTLE WHITE BUGS AND FUZZY LITTLE EGGS!!!!
    MITES?!
    im fairly certain i havent contaminated any of my snakes....but i would be willing to do a preventative treatment....
    i figured the bleach would have killed anything off....
    what should i doooo?!?!?!:O
  • 01-19-2013, 06:42 PM
    3skulls
    white bugs and eggs?!?!?!
    You have pics of them?
  • 01-19-2013, 06:52 PM
    DooLittle
    Re: white bugs and eggs?!?!?!
    Mites are black. Wonder what they are? Pictures??

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  • 01-19-2013, 06:54 PM
    zumTod076
    Re: white bugs and eggs?!?!?!
    i do not have photos
    there were only about five of them, bugs and eggs
    and my first instinct was to obliterate them with my finger and put rubbing alcohol on them lol
    i searched a bit online after the post and they kind of looked a bit like wood mites/lice?
    but i read that the first stage of mite they are white then turn the darker colors....:/
  • 01-19-2013, 07:46 PM
    3skulls
    white bugs and eggs?!?!?!
    Could have been something that laid the eggs after you cleaned it.
  • 01-19-2013, 07:52 PM
    West Coast Jungle
    Are you using a wood substrate? Sounds like wood mites. totally harmless
  • 01-19-2013, 10:12 PM
    Inarikins
    My first thought was wood mites as well. They're annoying but ultimately not harmful to your snake.
  • 01-19-2013, 10:18 PM
    zumTod076
    Re: white bugs and eggs?!?!?!
    i might do a pam treatment just in case, i wont be using wood substrate but i did just order some nice big pieces of drift wood to put in there....
    thanks!
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