Omg mites burn everything

Can mites travel up glass? Like a 125? And why aren't they drowning? I swear I have held the lower end of my banana spider in the water for 45 minutes and they STILL won't let go!

I almost don't want to ask because it may come across wrong but are you sure it has mites? Could the black specks that you think are mites just be the black specks that bananas get as they age/grow? I don't want to sound insulting but I think it's worth asking as it may save you a lot of trouble.

Here is a picture of young bananas (a spider and regular banana). You can see the speckles just starting to develop.

http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/p...anaFemales.jpg

Don't worry you aren't insulting me at all! I expected him to grow into some of his spots because he is half banana half spider but he seemed to grow into them literally overnight, and then I saw with my own eyes a bug crawling on his face. I don't know if it was a mite, a spawn of the devil, but it was definitely moving. Since then, NOTHING has moved, literally nothing. I swear sometimes I think I am losing my mind but banana spots don't just grow over night do they? I am overwhelmed with it.

Maybe it was just some random tiny bug that just happened to be in his enclosure. I don't know. It could be stress. It's probably stress.

The "mites" that aren't coming off are probably just the black specks bananas get. The moving one is a different story. I would just check real well before getting overly stressed.

I just have no idea where it even came from! He was the only moving one we found in our entire area. We checked all our enclosures. Every single one. We feared the baby banana had them because of the moving one but my boyfriend and I couldn't find a single moving monster in any of our tubs. Other than our itty bitty snakes of course. We disinfected absolutely everything anyway though.

I hope your situation gets better. The key to getting rid of mites is in the weekly retreating of the enclosures AND area around the enclosures with the Pam or NIX once a week for at least three weeks. Good luck!

Thank you so much, I am just having a really, really rough week. Oh well. Gotta have Faith.

I also want to ask what substrate are you using. Alot of common hardware store aspen has little bug, that actually are pretty good little garbage cleaner. and with the water its not that you want it to be SOAPY you legit put a drop of Dawn in to give the water a surface retention so the bugs cant float to top and live... as for nix its not that expensive considering you have a 2000$+ snake LOL im sure you could get someone to loan you 20$ for nix and a spray bottle and 2qts of distilled water.