My baby ball died today :(

So my male ball died today. He had mites and I was treating him with Jarrusi Mite everyday. I would soak him for a hour in luke warm water then take him out change the water and spray the Jarrusi mite on him. put him back in the water and let him soak in it for another hour. I put a towel on the 6q tub that he soaked in to keep in humidity and water warm.

So it was time to take him out of the bath and put him back in his cage but when I came back to do so I found him in the water dead:( idk what happend i have been doing this same process for 3days and idk what i did but hes dead. if anyone has any explantion I would love to hear it.

Thanx:please:

some just arent meant to make it part of life very sorry for you life the baths could have been top stressful...... ONCE AGAIN VERY SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS

Snake mite treatments are not meant to be everyday, but I'm sorry about your loss. And I'm not implying the mite treatment was the cause of death, but stress and mite treatments IMO are toxic so it should be done liberally.

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Originally Posted by majorleaguereptiles

Snake mite treatments are not meant to be everyday.

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How often do you think I should use this mite stuff? cuz i dont want to make the same mistake down the road

I am very sorry for your loss. He must have been to stressed out.

I do not know much but i do not believe you are supposed to use the mite spray directly on the reptile since its toxic to kill the mites. I could be wrong..

Again i am sorry!

I've rescued wild caught snakes and did mite treatments every week or so. Mite treatments really aren't toxic as they simply dry the mites out, but IMO I just don't think it's as good for the reptile to use it daily. It's a liberal thing that is done in a tub of water as well.

Thanx you guys! I will hopefully be smarter next time. I'm going to get a nother baby ball at the in Jan. in Charlotte

I'm very sorry for you loss:(

I'm so sorry for your loss.

I'm not familiar with Jarrusi Mite. But as a suggestion for the future (if you run into mites again) I suggest Prevent-a-Mite (or PAM for short). It is super simple to use and completely effective. All you need to do is remove the snake and water, spray the bedding (I do it in the garage), let it dry, and put the snake and water back in. That's it. I've had 100% successful results with 1 treatment and also treat enclosures for any new comer, just in case. You can re-peat the treatment as per the directions if need be.

Jurrasi Mite is garbage and it doesn't work. I got it from Petsmart before and it's a waste of time and money. Then I used Reptile Relief and got good results.

I'd take my snake out and soak it for a long time. remove all bedding and bleach the tub/tank and add new bedding. bleach all items that were in the tank. put snakes back in tank when everything is dry.

Once I had to do this twice but it has always worked for me..

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Originally Posted by jsmorphs2

I'm so sorry for your loss.

I'm not familiar with Jarrusi Mite. But as a suggestion for the future (if you run into mites again) I suggest Prevent-a-Mite (or PAM for short). It is super simple to use and completely effective. All you need to do is remove the snake and water, spray the bedding (I do it in the garage), let it dry, and put the snake and water back in. That's it. I've had 100% successful results with 1 treatment and also treat enclosures for any new comer, just in case. You can re-peat the treatment as per the directions if need be.

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Were can I get some?

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Originally Posted by alkibp

Jurrasi Mite is garbage and it doesn't work. I got it from Petsmart before and it's a waste of time and money. Then I used Reptile Relief and got good results.

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Were can I get some?

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Originally Posted by Subdriven

I'd take my snake out and soak it for a long time. remove all bedding and bleach the tub/tank and add new bedding. bleach all items that were in the tank. put snakes back in tank when everything is dry.

Once I had to do this twice but it has always worked for me..

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How ofeten did you do this process and what did you use? Did it work?

I am sorry for the loss of your baby. I know you did what you thought was right, and then to have it die anyway is terrible.

I had the exact same thing happen to me. I got a baby ball from Petco who was INFESTED with mites. There were more mites than snake. When I went to them for advice, they sold me a blue bottle of mite stiff, I can't even remember the name. They told me to follow the directions on the bottle.

This stuff said to spray her all over, then spray her enclosure. Wait three days and repeat. So I did just that, twice. But by the end of that week, we found her dead in her tank. There were probably millions of mites on her. We took the whole thing outside [ it was mid-december ] and let it sit outside in the freezing cold for a week, then I beached the tank, boiled it, bleached it again and then put it in the shed for the winter.

Now, I have 18 snakes, and despite my best efforts, I occasionally see a few mites, usually in a water bowl and always in a quarantine tub. I use the Provent-a-Mite, which can be ordered online as pet stores don't carry it, and once a month I bag all the snakes up, put all the water dishes in the sink to be washed, dump all the old bedding even if it's not dirty, put in new bedding and then LIGHTLY spray each tub. I let it dry for 40 minutes while I wash water dishes and weigh snakes, then everybody goes back in their mite-free tubs.

The wonderful thing about PAM, is that while it isn't designed to kill the mites on the snake, it does kill them when they wander off to lay eggs. That way one mite doesn't become 1,000 mites. And a little of it goes a long way. I've had my can for almost a year now, and I am just about to order a new one.

So, do yourself and any future baby a huge favor, but yourself some PAM before the snake. Treat it's enclosure once a month, and never have to worry about mites.

Gale

Baby snakes get stressed easily with that kind of handling. I have tried using those mite killing bands for dogs and cats and you can just leave it in your snake cage for a night. Worked for me well.

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Originally Posted by angllady2

I am sorry for the loss of your baby. I know you did what you thought was right, and then to have it die anyway is terrible.

I had the exact same thing happen to me. I got a baby ball from Petco who was INFESTED with mites. There were more mites than snake. When I went to them for advice, they sold me a blue bottle of mite stiff, I can't even remember the name. They told me to follow the directions on the bottle.

This stuff said to spray her all over, then spray her enclosure. Wait three days and repeat. So I did just that, twice. But by the end of that week, we found her dead in her tank. There were probably millions of mites on her. We took the whole thing outside [ it was mid-december ] and let it sit outside in the freezing cold for a week, then I beached the tank, boiled it, bleached it again and then put it in the shed for the winter.

Now, I have 18 snakes, and despite my best efforts, I occasionally see a few mites, usually in a water bowl and always in a quarantine tub. I use the Provent-a-Mite, which can be ordered online as pet stores don't carry it, and once a month I bag all the snakes up, put all the water dishes in the sink to be washed, dump all the old bedding even if it's not dirty, put in new bedding and then LIGHTLY spray each tub. I let it dry for 40 minutes while I wash water dishes and weigh snakes, then everybody goes back in their mite-free tubs.

The wonderful thing about PAM, is that while it isn't designed to kill the mites on the snake, it does kill them when they wander off to lay eggs. That way one mite doesn't become 1,000 mites. And a little of it goes a long way. I've had my can for almost a year now, and I am just about to order a new one.

So, do yourself and any future baby a huge favor, but yourself some PAM before the snake. Treat it's enclosure once a month, and never have to worry about mites.

Gale

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Thanx a lot for this good info. I will be deff. ordring some PAM tongiht!!! I got my ball from a expo in Charlotte on 9/2/10 and about a week I satrted to see mites. thanx again:)

How deep of water were you soaking him in and how warm was it?

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Originally Posted by 2kdime

How deep of water were you soaking him in and how warm was it?

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x2. Also, since you sprayed him before putting him in the bath, it's possible some of the chemicals got into the water and were incidentally ingested.

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Originally Posted by Herp4life11

Were can I get some?

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I got Reptile Relief from www.reptilebasics.com

Stories like this are never good to hear, and I'm sorry that you had to face this tragedy. There is a ton of folks here with great experience and insight and your are asking the right questions.

Best of luck moving forward.

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Originally Posted by 2kdime

How deep of water were you soaking him in and how warm was it?

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No more then a inch nd a half and luke warm not too hot and not too cold and on the bottle is says to spray directly on the snake.