Mite treatment

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Originally Posted by Jus1More

Deborah... can a baby snake (2-3 month old) get mites too? :confusd:

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Yes it can happen at any age if the animal was around other animals that had mites in other words if there is a mite outbreak where the animal come from chances that animal will have mites to, which is why proper quarantine is so important and pre-treating for mite upon acquisition is always a good idea.

The best way to take care of a problem is to prevent it.

Quick question for future reference; when treating a QT animal with mites, how often should their tub be treated? Once a week? Once a month?


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I would think that some kind of sticky traps / fly paper would be a good preventative in strategic places in your rack. If you never go see another persons collection or never go to a reptile show then you don't have to worry, but even walking into a pet store can result in a mite hitch hiker and infect your collection when you go home. Those buggers are tough to get rid of, they can crawl across the floor and live somewhere across the room and infect you at random, I think the lifecycle is a few weeks so you would have to be clean for at least that long to get rid of them. I had them really bad about a year ago, it was a nightmare. I should have used PAM instead of reptile spray, although I have seen people use PAM on a regular basis and have a lingering low level infection that in some cases they don't even know about. One mite can turn into hundreds / thousands in just a couple weeks.

I hesitate having sticky stuff near my snakes. They're houdinis


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