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ticks please help
i just got a new male about a year and a half old and i noticed after i got him home he has two ticks on him and i dont know what to do i've got three other ball pythons none of them have ever had ticks so im not really sure what to do
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Re: ticks please help
Originally Posted by gunsfan05
i just got a new male about a year and a half old and i noticed after i got him home he has two ticks on him and i dont know what to do i've got three other ball pythons none of them have ever had ticks so im not really sure what to do
Pull them off and rub some Neosporin on where they were..
When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001? ~ Mark Cuban "for the discerning collector"
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Re: ticks please help
the only reason i noticed them they must have moved becuase when i got him they were not on his head and three days later they were and i cant really hold him becuase of where they are
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Re: ticks please help
Quarantine the animal in a separate room far away from the other snakes. Unless you want them all to have ticks. Check the other snakes for ticks and if they any of them have it as well quarantine them as well.
Switch to newspaper and disinfect the cage as well as anything around or in it. Go buy some Provent-a-mite to kill off the rest of the ticks and prevent any future ones from appearing.
That is what I would do :-)
Good luck getting rid of them.
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Re: ticks please help
Where did you get this snake from? Ticks are usually on wild caught imports. Even if it is a CB or CH snake I would be sure it doesnt get anywhere near my other snakes for a long time. If it was in an environment where it could get ticks there is no telling what else it could have.
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Re: ticks please help
I am still trying to figure out where my GTP got his tick from. Noticed it 2 days ago and he is all alone and has been since he was a juvi, He is 5 years old now. So far no ticks on anything else so I have no clue. Now I have to get it off and probably take a bite or two in the process. The only other time i found a tick on a snake was when a guy was trying to sell me cb hatchling ball pythons that i knew were imports. Once I pointed out the ticks he changed his story really fast.
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Re: ticks please help
If you bought that BP from a store, I can almost guarantee it was not captive bred.....ticks are a sure indicator of that.
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