ECLARK - mites

Personally, I bought from Ed and would again. Mites happen.. I seriously doubt that Ed said "oh! Look! This snake has mites.. let me ship it to someone that I share a popular forum with, and jeopardize my reputation there.." :)
I am glad that Ed is sending you some PAM, Becky. A few months ago, I got mites from a bag of aspen, and Ed actually sent me a can free (it was before I ordered the snake from him.)
I ajm glad that things appear "cleaned up" now in the thread.. if anything, hopefully it is a lesson to us all that STRICT quarantine procedures can NOT be ignored or allowed to slip..!
This business, I believe moreso than others.. depends SO crucially on customer references and happiness with their purchases.. I hope that people don't look at Ed like the devil for this.. honestly, it could happen to you or anyone else.

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

I got mites from a bag of aspen

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Say what?

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

A few months ago, I got mites from a bag of aspen

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Mites were obviously hitchhiking on/in this bag. I would concider using caution at the shop the aspen was purchased from. Mites will hitchhike on anything they are crawling on when you pick it up, but the mites will not stick around if there is no food source.

Rick

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

Mites happen..

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No they don't. Not with the proper precautions.

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

A few months ago, I got mites from a bag of aspen

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This was covered in another thread. The bugs that sometimes come IN aspen bags are wood mites and are completely harmless to your reptile.

If you got SNAKE MITES, an invasive species of mite native to southeast asia, then they came from the pet store that the bag of aspen was stored in. Period.

There's a huge difference between the two that should be pointed out here.

And April is not Becky(who is me), just to clarify that ;)

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Originally Posted by SatanicIntention

And April is not Becky(who is me), just to clarify that ;)

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Sorry; I can be such a complete dweeb sometimes..! :oops:

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Originally Posted by elevatethis

This was covered in another thread. The bugs that sometimes come IN aspen bags are wood mites and are completely harmless to your reptile.

If you got SNAKE MITES, an invasive species of mite native to southeast asia, then they came from the pet store that the bag of aspen was stored in. Period.

There's a huge difference between the two that should be pointed out here.

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Well the aspen bag was opened and sitting by snake cages..

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Originally Posted by SiscoReptiles

Mites were obviously hitchhiking on/in this bag. I would concider using caution at the shop the aspen was purchased from. Mites will hitchhike on anything they are crawling on when you pick it up, but the mites will not stick around if there is no food source.

Rick

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I don't shop there, or any pet stores that stock herps really, anymore.. no need to.

How can you guarantee elimination of mites with one treatment? Doesn't it sometimes take weeks for eggs to hatch? Until they hatch how will you know the extent of the contamination?

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Originally Posted by ECLARK

Everything is in seperate rooms. baby room, stuff for sale is another room and the main collection is like a no mans land. there is no way that if something like this happens that it could infect everything!

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Baby room, stuff for sale and main collection. Funny you never mentioned a quarantine room.

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Originally Posted by ECLARK

I had a small mite problem in a few tubs in a 20 unit baby rack that was quickly treated and completely eliminated!

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This happened in your "for sale" room, how can you guarantee a couple mites didn't get on other racks in the same room? How can you still try to sell animals with the slightest chance of sending mites?