Mite treatment

So I have used provent-a-mite and natural chemistry reptile spray successfully for treatment, but was wondering if folks have used nature zone mite guard powder as either a treatment or preventative?

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You do not need preventive treatment with your collection and I would not recommend subjecting your animals to pesticide long term or on a regular basis. The only truly effective mite treatment is PAM as it treats all stages of development, nature chemistry is great for instant relief but will not kill eggs.

If you have strong husbandry practices all you ever need to do it pre-treat new arrivals for mites and that's it.

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You do not need preventive treatment with your collection and I would not recommend subjecting your animals to pesticide long term or on a regular basis. The only truly effective mite treatment is PAM as it treats all stages of development, nature chemistry is great for instant relief but will not kill eggs.

If you have strong husbandry practices all you ever need to do it pre-treat new arrivals for mites and that's it.

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What is your process for pre-treating new arrivals?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwCAuhSVRV4

Just curious, is there any material (ex. Acrylic, glass, metal, etc.) that snake mites cannot climb?

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What is your process for pre-treating new arrivals?

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Starts with proper quarantine, new snakes should be kept in a different room at the opposite of your established animals.

Treat the enclosure that you will use for AT with PAM, than treat again 2 weeks.

I do not recommend home made brew unless you have the knowledge as it could cause neurological damage and it death.

Mites jump and can hitchhike on you, so again proper quarantine and working with established animals first and QT second is a must, that means once you deal with QT you do not go back were your established animals are.

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What is your process for pre-treating new arrivals?

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What I do is make sure my quarantine area is set up and about 3 days before I bring the new arrival home, I spray the empty quarantine tub with PAM (Provent-a-mite). Then the day new arrival is here, set up the tub with paper towels, water dish and disposable hide (like a cardboard box). That's it. Then after 60-90 days if all is well, new arrival moves in with the collection. I've brought in snakes that had mites before and this worked great.

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Originally Posted by Deborah

Starts with proper quarantine, new snakes should be kept in a different room at the opposite of your established animals.

Treat the enclosure that you will use for AT with PAM, than treat again 2 weeks.

I do not recommend home made brew unless you have the knowledge as it could cause neurological damage and it death.

Mites jump and can hitchhike on you, so again proper quarantine and working with established animals first and QT second is a must, that means once you deal with QT you do not go back were your established animals are.

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Just to make sure I'm clear, you don't spray the newspaper/paper towel directly with PAM, right? If it's a current animal I'm treating, how long should I let the PAM dry in the tub before I can safely put the liner and animal in there?

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Just to make sure I'm clear, you don't spray the newspaper/paper towel directly with PAM, right? If it's a current animal I'm treating, how long should I let the PAM dry in the tub before I can safely put the liner and animal in there?

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You spray everything, remember a little goes a long way, all you have to do is remove the water dish, you let PAM dry which should take about 30 min.

When I prepare an enclosure for QT I have newspaper and I usually do it the morning of the arrival giving it plenty of time to dry (an hour or more)


I you are currently treating an animal do the same but remove the animal as well for 30 min to an hour.

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Originally Posted by Deborah

Starts with proper quarantine, new snakes should be kept in a different room at the opposite of your established animals.

Treat the enclosure that you will use for AT with PAM, than treat again 2 weeks.

I do not recommend home made brew unless you have the knowledge as it could cause neurological damage and it death.

Mites jump and can hitchhike on you, so again proper quarantine and working with established animals first and QT second is a must, that means once you deal with QT you do not go back were your established animals are.

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

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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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