Spraying Mice with NIX before feeding

Judy, The OP is in new york, where PAM is illegal. NIX has the same active ingredient (and the same amount of that ingredient) that PAM does. It works exactly the same.

OP: Please don't spray the mouse with anything. At all. The mites that live on rats and mice are not the kind of mites that will harm your snake. They only attack warm blooded animals.

As I said in your other thread, as long as you are getting your feeders from a reliable source you will never have to worry about mites.

Since you used the NIX, you will be mite free for at LEAST 30 days regardless if you reintroduce more mites. They will just die once them come in contact with the treated snake enclosure.

Snake mites are generally spread through contact with other snakes, on your clothes if you handled another snake with mites, or sometimes in loose bedding (usually not snake mites though. More commonly wood mites).


I think you are worrying too much.

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Originally Posted by Kaorte

Judy, The OP is in new york, where PAM is illegal. NIX has the same active ingredient (and the same amount of that ingredient) that PAM does. It works exactly the same.

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I live in NY Area as well and even if i dont have problem so far i like to be prepared. What is a NIX you talking about.. any links ?? Because i have 2 options.... or import PAM illegally to the state..(i have friend who live outside NY and they can order it for me ) or use something different.

Thanks in Advance.

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Originally Posted by Aes_Sidhe

I live in NY Area as well and even if i dont have problem so far i like to be prepared. What is a NIX you talking about.. any links ?? Because i have 2 options.... or import PAM illegally to the state..(i have friend who live outside NY and they can order it for me ) or use something different.

Thanks in Advance.

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NIX is a lice spray that is sold at almost every major drug store.

Feeder mice/rats are extremely unlikely to harbour reptile (bird) mites. Any you do see on them will be mammal mites or more likely lice, and unable to harm your snake.

Here is a good site on Nix for treating mites: http://www.albertareptilesociety.org/caresheets/nix.pdf
Nix is alot cheaper($10 for a gallon) and leaves a residue to kill future mites for at least 10 days!

no do not spray them

Reptile and bird mites are also not the same species.

Bird mites WILL bite humans, as they tend to test bite a lot--they won't live on humans or other mammals, and won't live on reptiles.

There are several species of mites that use reptiles as hosts, several that use birds, and several that use mammals...etc etc.
(There is a mite for almost everything, often more than one).

Gotcha. I don't think the mites I spoke of in my OP were snake mites. Just glad they're gone now, whatever kind they were.

Just to be clear, never ever spray your snakes food with toxic poision designed to kill things and then feed it to the them ! It may just do exactly what it was designed to do, which is kill whatever ingested it.

Yes, thank you. That point has been covered. O_o