Mites

Hello!

I have been treating my newly acquired BP for about 2-3 weeks now for its mites. It has been on paper towel the entire time, so I'm just wondering how I tell when he doesn't have mites anymore?

Thanks! :)

You are looking at a life cycle of 30 days, depending on what you use to treat the animal and the extent of the infestation it might be over, it might not be.

If this was a new animal and it arrived with mite I hope that if you have other snakes you preventively treated them as well.

Gotta just keep checking the snake and the cage, and checking, and checking. Honestly mites are evil. I would quarantine any snake with mites from other snakes for a good six months. Over kill I know, but I had a case of mites that despite my efforts for a while kept cropping up every three months. The thing that stopped it dead in its tracks was using a bottle of Nix (I think it was 4 oz) mixed with a gallon of water, sprayed down the whole tub and the rack, did that twice a week for two weeks. Mites forever gone!

How have you been treating for the mites?

All you ever wanted to know about snake mites but were afraid to ask...
http://denardo.lab.asu.edu/publicati...snakemites.pdf

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Originally Posted by Deborah

You are looking at a life cycle of 30 days, depending on what you use to treat the animal and the extent of the infestation it might be over, it might not be.

If this was a new animal and it arrived with mite I hope that if you have other snakes you preventively treated them as well.

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He is my only snake. I'm watching the paper towel and there's barely any black specs on the towel now.

Back when I was heavy into BP's, I used a product called "Reptile Relief". I had very good results with it. It killed mites quickly and I never observed any adverse affect to the snakes. However, do your research and find out how others may or may not have liked the product.

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Originally Posted by Chexmix

He is my only snake. I'm watching the paper towel and there's barely any black specs on the towel now.

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It only takes one left alive to have a full-blown reinfestation in a few months.

After my last infestation I didn't consider my snakes to be 100% mite-free until I hadn't found a mite for six weeks. A big part of that was spraying a paper towel with Reptile Relief, wiping the snake, and then inspecting every black speck on the paper towel with a magnifier to determine if it was a mite or something else, such as a small piece of scale.

I had mites about a year ago and I used a combo of reptile relief (be careful with it though as it is a poison), and a non chemical solution from zoomed called mite off. I only used the reptile relief for a month, then continued the mite off for I think 4-6 months to prevent another outbreak. Jynx stayed on paper towel for I think a total of 2 months.