Soaking a LOT?

[Hotwire]

A mite egg can take up to 30 days to hatch so you have to continue to treat your snakes, the enclosures, etc. for a month after you stop finding them on your snake.

Thank you, I have read a LOT of contradicting information like this. BUT, the 30 days is the best I could average out as well. This is why I will be doing 4 cycles of the NIX treatment, every 5 - 7 days. 5 treatments (One initial treatment, then 4 cycles) at 7 days will cover that 30 days, PLUS a few for good measure.

Thanks again.

[AbsoluteApril]

Sorry you have to deal with it, mites are such a pain.
One treatment of PAM (provent-a-mite) would fix it as well.

[KevinK]

My first ball python got mites. Looking back, I swear it was from a batch of aspen or something I bought at the pet store.

I know FOR A FACT that I've gotten them from a bag of Zoo Med Forest Floor Cypress before.

100% guaranteed.

....a great reason to switch to newspaper or (even better) indented kraft paper.

To this day if I use any sort of substrate besides kraft paper I will bake it (sanitize it) in large disposable turkey pans and let it cool down before using...strictly because I know how much of a pain mites are to get rid of.

[Zincubus]

I know FOR A FACT that I've gotten them from a bag of Zoo Med Forest Floor Cypress before.

100% guaranteed.

....a great reason to switch to newspaper or (even better) indented kraft paper.

To this day if I use any sort of substrate besides kraft paper I will bake it (sanitize it) in large disposable turkey pans and let it cool down before using...strictly because I know how much of a pain mites are to get rid of.

Maybe the mites were on the bag of substrate as I've heard of a few cases of a similar thing , picked up from the pet store where mites can be prevalent ? I read somewhere that they can't survive in bags of substrate for any length of time ... could be misinformation of course ,


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[KevinK]

Judging by the sheer amount of them with a few days time, I would definitely say they came inside the bag of substrate.

I run a sterile snake room, use good quarantine practices (and at the time I had no new snakes). I didn't bring in any new hides, plants, etc. None of my animals had been outside or in any position where they would have picked them up.


I know it's not a super common ordeal, but I am 100% certain I picked them up from a bag of forest floor. It wasn't a case of "Oh look there's a few mites in the water bowl"..........rather it was a case of "holy sh*t there's thousands of them all over the place".

Took me MONTHS to get rid of.