Pest control?

[Sauzo]

I really couldn't imagine any type of pest spraying would be good for any living thing. I mean after all, the stuff is designed to kill. Like mentioned, you can ask for a MSDS sheet or the name of the pesticide they are spraying, then google it for a MSDS sheet. Regardless though, I would be most worried about neurological problems. I mean Permethrin, Pyrethrin and stuff like no pest strips have been known to kill reptiles or give them serious neuro problems and all those chemicals are used in some pesticides. Again, I would find out exactly what they are using and MSDS it and find out.

[Yodawagon]

I say get some good bug traps and refuse spraying.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

From years back working for a pest control company I can tell you that we highly recommended that rooms with any reptiles, amphibian and aquatics not to be sprayed.

The issue with pest control in apartments is that when someone refuses and everyone else's accept the pest will migrate in the apartment that has not been sprayed, that being said twice monthly is really over the top and only focusing on bathroom and kitchen is also very inefficient for the same reason mention previously (you either spray everything or you don't)

I own a house but I do my own pest prevention (I live in the south and in the wood so prevention is important to me), I spray all baseboard in every room except the snake room, for the snake room the carpet in the stairways is sprayed and that's it.

If I was living in apartment I would definitely have pest control come (things can go bad very quick depending on your neigh boors) however I would require to be there and that treatment is done once a month not more if done by an outside company, if done by the care taker of the apartment complex (who often use this as an excuse to nose in) I would refuse and do my own treatment.

[Coluber42]

Heh, this thread makes me glad to live in New England. We keep our thermostat fairly low and the kitchen is particularly poorly insulated... but in the winter, we can get away with being fairly lax about putting food away and nothing happens to it. In the summer we can't do that (we don't have A/C, and the windows are usually open) but even still we don't usually see much worse than fruit flies or maybe a few ants.
Of course, on the other hand, we often wear hats in the house and heating a 20L tank for a BP requires an 80-watt RHP. But we don't need much in the way of pesticides!

[SCWood]

From years back working for a pest control company I can tell you that we highly recommended that rooms with any reptiles, amphibian and aquatics not to be sprayed.

The issue with pest control in apartments is that when someone refuses and everyone else's accept the pest will migrate in the apartment that has not been sprayed, that being said twice monthly is really over the top and only focusing on bathroom and kitchen is also very inefficient for the same reason mention previously (you either spray everything or you don't)

I own a house but I do my own pest prevention (I live in the south and in the wood so prevention is important to me), I spray all baseboard in every room except the snake room, for the snake room the carpet in the stairways is sprayed and that's it.

If I was living in apartment I would definitely have pest control come (things can go bad very quick depending on your neigh boors) however I would require to be there and that treatment is done once a month not more if done by an outside company, if done by the care taker of the apartment complex (who often use this as an excuse to nose in) I would refuse and do my own treatment.

Did I say twice monthly? I meant every other month 😂