Help! Corn snake red mites

I recently got a blizzard corn snake. It's eating hopper nice readily, is active and very friendly. But today I found 2 red dots on the snake that I assume are mites. Does anyone know how to get rid of them? Any help would be appreciated. Pictures included.http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...194da8adeb.jpghttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...123158cce2.jpg


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Those don't look like mites to me but it could just be your phone. If you have a magnifying glass or loupe try taking a better look through it.

But, just in case they are... http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...it-with-AaronP

The only part I disagree with is applying the permethrin solution to the snake, I use Reptile Spray directly on the animal instead.

Hi there!
I've dealt with mites before. I's no big deal. But they are a pain in the butt to get rid of. But defiantly not anything to freak out about:)
If you have any other reptiles, be sure to keep your snake in a separate room.
Bathe your snake everyday. Wash your tank with a gently soap everyday. Zoo Med's mite spray and Natural Chemistry mite spray both work great. I've used both.
Do this everyday for 30 days. If there's still mites, repeat for another 30 days.
Mite eggs hatch after 7-10 days. You can't see the eggs because they are hidden in the scales. Mites can live for 30-40 days on a host. Without a host, they only live for 10-12 hours.
If you have other reptiles, be sure to change your clothes before taking care of them after you wash the tank and snake so that the mites don't spread.
Good Luck

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I recently got a blizzard corn snake. It's eating hopper nice readily, is active and very friendly. But today I found 2 red dots on the snake that I assume are mites. Does anyone know how to get rid of them? Any help would be appreciated. Pictures included.http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...194da8adeb.jpghttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...123158cce2.jpg


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Wow , weird . I've seen loads of photos of mites but I've never seen red ones EVER . Maybe they're not snake mites and just some other harmless insect ??

I'll be watching this thread to find out out how things progress .

Good luck anyways !

The mites will rapidly multiply if nothing is done right?


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The mites will rapidly multiply if nothing is done right?


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Maybe start another thread - with a title asking for confirmation that they are indeed mites .

We have insects just like those red things on country walls and paths over here in the UK .

They may not even mites .. ..

Hum I am going to follow this thread....

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Are you sure they are mites and not some slight paradoxing? Ive seen some pictures of that sort of thing before.
Next time you see them on the snake, use a damp tissue or something to see if you can remove them. There's no point trying to get rid of mites, if there are no mites to get rid of in the first place!

I'm pretty sure this is a super-low-expression paradox, letting the albino colours trough some places, and that you don't need to take the step treating for mites.

I don't have a blizzard, but i've had several snow corn snakes with these dots on them. I'm sure it's much more common than we think, it's just that in pure white snakes it's much more noticeable.

Terrible pictures, don't know what happend, but these are taken 5 minutes ago. Same little red dots :)
http://0o2471.net/l/64073http://0o2471.net/l/64074

Yoga guys look to be onto something. !

I've NEVER seen albino red mites before :)

Those look like freckles, snow corns often have them. Have they moved at all? Snake mites are not that color red.

You get rid of mites by treating with certain poisons, do not treat your snake with a poison unless you absolutely have to.

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Originally Posted by emilys_exotics

Hi there!
I've dealt with mites before. I's no big deal. But they are a pain in the butt to get rid of. But defiantly not anything to freak out about:)
If you have any other reptiles, be sure to keep your snake in a separate room.
Bathe your snake everyday. Wash your tank with a gently soap everyday. Zoo Med's mite spray and Natural Chemistry mite spray both work great. I've used both.
Do this everyday for 30 days. If there's still mites, repeat for another 30 days.
Mite eggs hatch after 7-10 days. You can't see the eggs because they are hidden in the scales. Mites can live for 30-40 days on a host. Without a host, they only live for 10-12 hours.
If you have other reptiles, be sure to change your clothes before taking care of them after you wash the tank and snake so that the mites don't spread.
Good Luck

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Couple of things here. Mite eggs can take several weeks to hatch depending on temperature, and mites do not lay their eggs ON the snake. The female mite will drop off of the snake and find a tight crevice to squeeze into to lay their eggs. Generally the corner of a cage or piece of cage furniture. I once saw a particularly bad infestation where the mites had wedged themselves into the end of a roll of paper towels that was sitting right outside the cage. There were so many mites wedged in between the sheets of paper on the end of the roll that you could see several concentric rings of mites. The brown mites showed up quite well against the white paper.

They could be mites. When one of my snakes had mites, sometimes they were red. I've found that It's usually it's the small/ baby mites that are red.
Good Luck!:)

I have had the red mites before and they are wood mites from the reptibark bedding I was using. I switched to newspaper and have not had an issue since.

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I have had the red mites before and they are wood mites from the reptibark bedding I was using. I switched to newspaper and have not had an issue since.

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I'm tempted to go with this idea tbh ... unless they're the speckles mentioned a few posts back .

So did everyone figure out if its mites or not? I never new that the bark it's self has mites.

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Thanks for the help guys, the snakes on aspen bedding


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Any news

OP I hope we helped you... I learned something in your thread I'm going to bake my bark to kill stuff I always that Zoo Med and other companies stuff was ok. If I did not see your thread I would not of learned this today ..... please let us know how this turned out.

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The red dots aren't multiplying or moving, I also don't feel any texture on them so for now I assume they are just a pigment.


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That's really good news then ,isn't it !

Awesome

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Yes it really is ;D thanks all for your help


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