treating damp substrate with provent a mite

I have always done this with mites.

Remove snake and water bowl. Spray the tub with the aspen inside with pam. Wait till it dries. Put snakes back in. Put water bowls back in next day.

I am thinking about switching to cypress mulch. I could still treat as before, but the "wait till it dries" part becomes a problem, because unlike aspen, cypress mulch is damp out of thr bag. How will I be able to "wait till it dries" so to speak? I wouldnt be able to tell if the dampness is the pam or the moisture in the cypress. It would take days for the cypress to become dry.

Same question with coconut coir bricks.

If you're battling mites, you should just switch to newspaper or paper towels until they nipped anyway. Alternatively, maybe you could treat some newspaper, let it dry, then place it on top of your damp substrate.

Never been neccessary to switch to newspaper during infestations but I am not battling mites anyway. I read people treating garden supplies cypress with pam for wood mites.

No my freezer nor oven isn't big enough.

So how do you treat wet cypress with pam.

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Originally Posted by hungba

So how do you treat wet cypress with pam.

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You don't, nor would you want to.

Spread some cypress on a baking sheet and put it in the oven on 200*F for about an hour to dry it out quickly before treating it. You can also leave some out in a tub in a sunny window to dry out over time, which you could treat and use to replace any substrate removed for spot cleaning or a weekly full cleaning.

Switch to paper towels or butcher paper. There is no sense giving mites natural products like cypress mulch and aspen to hide in.

I would use Natural Chemistry, though I do not know if it would do anything with wood mites.
I have never been a fan of PAM.
You could also bake small batches of mulch too.

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Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl

I would use Natural Chemistry, though I do not know if it would do anything with wood mites.
I have never been a fan of PAM.
You could also bake small batches of mulch too.

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Might be the first time I agree with pit, but Natural Chemistry is the way to go in my opinion. Much less hazard for the snake. As a toxicologist I give it two thumbs up.

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Originally Posted by JoshSloane

Might be the first time I agree with pit, but Natural Chemistry is the way to go in my opinion. Much less hazard for the snake. As a toxicologist I give it two thumbs up.

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Also, I like the texas flag/punisher patch. Is that a Chris Kyle reference?

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Originally Posted by JoshSloane

Also, I like the texas flag/punisher patch. Is that a Chris Kyle reference?

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