Snake room full of flies!!!

This is my third year of owning BPs, 5th year owning snakes and never have I seen it this bad. It seems as my snake collection grows, so does the flies. Last night I went to put an empty tub on a sofa that is in the room and flies erupted from it. They were all over the ceiling, curtains, closet doors, it is really bad. My husband and I set to work each with a fly swatter. As we swatted them down I took the vacuum to the corpses. Absolutely disgusting. Last year I noticed how more flies enjoyed my snake room more then the rest of the house, but this is soooo bad, I can not explain it. This morning it seems our work of killing them last night did nothing and it is still as bad today.

I searched everywhere (including snakes, mice and ASF enclosures... just in case) but nothing in the room is rotting. No "human" food is EVER brought into the room, no coffee cups, fruit, and no dead rats stay in there. I keep the cages clean, spot cleaning when I have too, sanitizing the snakes enclosures 2 times a month and the rodent enclosures once a week. I am not sure if the smell of dirty enclosures can attract flies, but something is. The rest of the house has an odd fly here and there, but they seem to be attracted to my snake room. The snake room door is ALWAYS closed and locked when I am not in there. I have very curious kids, so I have to keep it locked... but the door is always closed, the windows have screens on them but they are never open to keep in the heat and humidity inside the room anyways. I do not even know how the flies got in there. I could imagine a few slipping through but I swear there are hundreds and I did not even notice them till yesterday.

Anyone else experience this and any tricks on how to get rid of them and keep them away?

What substrate do you use? I have problems with fruit flies wanting to lay eggs in moist eco-earth and topsoil, but not in my dry eco-earth enclosures and bark. It's never gotten horribly bad, but it's been a problem before.

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Originally Posted by BCS

This is my third year of owning BPs, 5th year owning snakes and never have I seen it this bad. It seems as my snake collection grows, so does the flies. Last night I went to put an empty tub on a sofa that is in the room and flies erupted from it. They were all over the ceiling, curtains, closet doors, it is really bad. My husband and I set to work each with a fly swatter. As we swatted them down I took the vacuum to the corpses. Absolutely disgusting. Last year I noticed how more flies enjoyed my snake room more then the rest of the house, but this is soooo bad, I can not explain it. This morning it seems our work of killing them last night did nothing and it is still as bad today.

I searched everywhere (including snakes, mice and ASF enclosures... just in case) but nothing in the room is rotting. No "human" food is EVER brought into the room, no coffee cups, fruit, and no dead rats stay in there. I keep the cages clean, spot cleaning when I have too, sanitizing the snakes enclosures 2 times a month and the rodent enclosures once a week. I am not sure if the smell of dirty enclosures can attract flies, but something is. The rest of the house has an odd fly here and there, but they seem to be attracted to my snake room. The snake room door is ALWAYS closed and locked when I am not in there. I have very curious kids, so I have to keep it locked... but the door is always closed, the windows have screens on them but they are never open to keep in the heat and humidity inside the room anyways. I do not even know how the flies got in there. I could imagine a few slipping through but I swear there are hundreds and I did not even notice them till yesterday.

Anyone else experience this and any tricks on how to get rid of them and keep them away?

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You sure there's no uneaten food buried in one of the snake's enclosure's substrate?

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/ca/ca35...1d453550c5.jpg

My guess would have been a dead feeder buried somewhere.

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Originally Posted by DVirginiana

What substrate do you use? I have problems with fruit flies wanting to lay eggs in moist eco-earth and topsoil, but not in my dry eco-earth enclosures and bark. It's never gotten horribly bad, but it's been a problem before.

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I use pine.

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Originally Posted by 200xth

You sure there's no uneaten food buried in one of the snake's enclosure's substrate?

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Very sure. I sanitized their cages on the 30th. Feeding day is Wednesday.

I would get fly strips and hang everywhere. They work!

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Originally Posted by stephy.lang07

I would get fly strips and hang everywhere. They work!

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I Just picked a couple up lol.

I use to have problems with flies. I have a guy spray my house but not my snake room... super weird but the flies stopped. Even though he doesn't enter my snake room.