Homemade Mite redemies?

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Originally Posted by Corey209

Freezing also kills every life cycle on mites if you have a large freezer.

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Freezing is not an effective way to eradicate mites. It may kill the adults and nymphs, but the eggs can go dormant. The eggs can go dormant for months until proper conditions arise and they will hatch when the temps come back up. Thus starting the cycle again.


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I put the enclosure outside yesterday for about 5 hours as it was -20 and cleaned it so whats the best option now for soaking my snake?

Warm water and a bit of soap, dawn or ivory seem to be the best options just avoid scrubbing antibacterial ect. I have also heard of mineral oil in the water that will also drown the mites. The goal is to kill the adults and kill all the eggs I don't freeze I just use steam or near boiling water and some scrubbing. the remaining issue is mites can walk quite far away from the enclosure and lay there so that vector must also be dealt with hence the DE or dri die it keeps the mites from returning.

This article will help you to understand what the mite is and how it reproduces so you can effectively break the cycle.

http://vpi.com/publications/the_life...of_snake_mites

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Originally Posted by satomi325

Freezing is not an effective way to eradicate mites. It may kill the adults and nymphs, but the eggs can go dormant. The eggs can go dormant for months until proper conditions arise and they will hatch when the temps come back up. Thus starting the cycle again.


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All life cycles are killed in really high temps and freezing temps.

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Originally Posted by kitedemon

When was the last time you bought permethrin? This is a crazy idea, I can't believe you are endorsing someone fooling around with mixing it on their own. People are well known for poisoning snakes and cats with this stuff at 0.1% and here someone is recommending MIXING it down from stronger!

LIKE 0.5%???? LIKE !!!! there is no like, in dealing with toxins it is exact or leave it the heck alone. No like! Not that you could buy it off the shelf as even in the US that is restricted.

Holly Hannah this is the most crazy notion I have read here.

Permethrin is classed as a WHIMIS D1B and D2B material (D1B Toxic material that causes serious and immediate effects-Toxic D2B Materials causing other toxic effects-Toxic)

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DILUTE PERMETHRIN IF YOU DO IT WRONGLY YOU WILL KILL YOU PET AND POISON YOUR SELF !!!!


I cannot believe that anyone would suggest this as ok.

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If you do it right it won't harm the snake, but I guess that's true you shouldn't mix it yourself if you haven't done so before. I personally don't even mix it myself, my local exotic reptile shop does it for me. I won't suggest this anymore.