Treating Mites Advice

So one of my BP have mites so i am going to quarantine. It was suggested to me to put her in a different enclosure, a tub, which i have. treat/quarantine her in that tub for a few days and clean the tank. my question is how do you maintain the heat or warmth in the tub?!?! in the room they are in now i have to use their lights to help keep their tanks warm as it is. is it necessary in a tub though since it is smaller?

she'll be quarantined in another room. i was just saying i have to use the lights to keep their tanks warm in the room they are in.

My Vet had me treat everyone and the rooms cleaned Top to bottom you Might as well buy the Gallon save some money .

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Here is the product and at some point I used PAM, Perhaps a Veteran here will explain that product. Here is the product you need.http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/08...1ce9aadb67.jpg Just follow the directions to the T

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Also Look in the forum on how to treat mites . I looked at mine as a Battle and I was gonna win. Its labor intensive and I took no chances because its expensive and I felt bad for my babies..

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If you're finding mites on the one snake and the others are in the same room, chances are that all of them are infested so all will need to be treated.

This has a lot of good info in it:
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...it-with-AaronP

For sanity sake when a noobie asks how to treat mites we should not say "PAM"... we should say provent-a-mite http://pro-products.com/provent-a-mite/

I can see someone now going to their kitchen cabinets getting the cooking spray and spraying their snake.

anyway so aside from provent-a-mite i would also do a daily soak in warm water (about 90degrees) with a few drops(about 3 drops to every 1.5 gal of water) of hand soap. have the water level in the tun you are soaking them in just a touch deeper then their backs are off of the ground. you dont want the snake to have to swim the whole time but enough to cover most of their body with water. let them sit in there for about 30min to and hour.

The idea with that is to drown out the mites. the soap helps minimize the chance of them having an air bubble with them under the snakes scales.

but i would say you should really use as many tactics as you can. mites are hell.

They are already going to be everywhere already. Treat everyone.

oh and you should keep doing what ever treatment you choose for 90 days minimum. Eggs could lay dormant for a while.

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Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl

They are already going to be everywhere already. Treat everyone.

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and this...

So easy. I'm not sure why people always over react.

1) Take a roll of paper towel and unroll as many squares as you have snakes. (10 snakes = 10 squares of paper towel).
2) Spray Provent-a-Mite on the paper towel and allow it to dry (wait an hour to be safe).
3) put 1 square of paper towel in each of the snakes enclosures
4) repeat the same steps in 2 weeks or if paper towel becomes soiled.

DONE!

thanks. i figured since the rest werent showing any signs they were ok. i'll treat them all. I use the Natural Chemistry, but i dont have the gallon size.


regarding the cooking oil, i was in fact told to use cooking oil by one of the clerks in the pet store!! true story. decided i wouldnt talk to him about snakes again.

thanks again

I used the product to clean the house including the walls and ceilings I don't like bugs on my Babies thats why it was labor intensive for me I did this for 3 months.

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Sorry for just using the PAM word but thats how it was given by everyone, my thoughts hum I can use oil on my Snake. So I ask here...

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Originally Posted by Lady mkrj58

I used the product to clean the house including the walls and ceilings I don't like bugs on my Babies thats why it was labor intensive for me I did this for 3 months.

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This was pretty pointless actually. Reptile mites need reptiles in order to live, so once you've killed the mites on and around your reptile the rest will die once 1 life cycle has passed. So the adults may live long enough to lay eggs on your wall but since the wall isn't a reptile those baby mites will just die without food.

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Originally Posted by Rickys_Reptiles

This was pretty pointless actually. Reptile mites need reptiles in order to live, so once you've killed the mites on and around your reptile the rest will die once 1 life cycle has passed. So the adults may live long enough to lay eggs on your wall but since the wall isn't a reptile those baby mites will just die without food.

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Except a female can survive up to 18 months between blood meals. It's only in captivity that we provide mites with an all-you-can-eat buffet.

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Originally Posted by Rickys_Reptiles

So easy. I'm not sure why people always over react.

1) Take a roll of paper towel and unroll as many squares as you have snakes. (10 snakes = 10 squares of paper towel).
2) Spray Provent-a-Mite on the paper towel and allow it to dry (wait an hour to be safe).
3) put 1 square of paper towel in each of the snakes enclosures
4) repeat the same steps in 2 weeks or if paper towel becomes soiled.

DONE!

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so what exactly does this do? how long does the papertowel stay in the enclosure if it doesn't become soiled? and what do you mean by soiled?

Can you guys simply not buy Callingtons mite spray online ??
It's regarded as THE main mite treatment in the UK .. just spray for a few seconds in the viv and you're done .. the snake stays in all the time and if its a bad infestation on the snake you can spray directly on the snake avoiding eyes .. It is expensive at £24 but lasts a while and works perfectly , quickly and SAFELY !

This sounds like Reptile Relief ,

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Originally Posted by Lady mkrj58

Sorry for just using the PAM word but thats how it was given by everyone, my thoughts hum I can use oil on my Snake. So I ask here...

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No worries. its something that happens across all hobbies. we respond in a way we have known and understood for years. problem is, noobies dont know what we are saying yet. either way, its still the correct advice. :gj:

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Originally Posted by Zincubus

Can you guys simply not buy Callingtons mite spray online ??
It's regarded as THE main mite treatment in the UK .. just spray for a few seconds in the viv and you're done .. the snake stays in all the time and if its a bad infestation on the snake you can spray directly on the snake avoiding eyes .. It is expensive at £24 but lasts a while and works perfectly , quickly and SAFELY !

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Interestingly enough, I looked up the active ingredient - D-PHENOTHRIN - and I couldn't find an equivalent product for sale to the public here in the US. It's used in wasp/hornet killers but as a stream to knock them out of the air, not as an aerosol product.

I did find several distributors if I wanted to buy truckloads of undiluted stuff but that would be overkill...

bcrc229 My situation was the Snake that had the mites was in quarantine and I was careful Next thing I know Mites on my snakes in the Snake room even with my rules. I may have gone overboard but the house was really clean its been 5 months no mites Awsome. The Positive side I got a education with some great hands learning....

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So can you not have Callingtons imported into USA ?? We get it off eBay ...

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Originally Posted by Lady mkrj58

bcrc229 My situation was the Snake that had the mites was in quarantine and I was careful Next thing I know Mites on my snakes in the Snake room even with my rules. I may have gone overboard but the house was really clean its been 5 months no mites Awsome. The Positive side I got a education with some great hands learning....

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Mites travel at about a foot per hour so one could have travelled from your QT area to your snake room under its own power, unless you treated the heck out of the doors and floors in each room.

I did treat every thing and glad I gotta right on it It's been 4 months and not a mite in sight

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I just got a hatchling in with mites. i quarantined him of course but it it safe to use the PAM on a paper towel in his tub? And is Reptile Relief safe on hatchlings? He's had first shed and 3 meals with the breeder.


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Wash every thing and divide your collection in two rooms. After a few weeks make sure one half of the collection is mite less. Move them to a "clean room" then just repeat the process for the second half