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    Re: Mites treatment

    Quote Originally Posted by Bogertophis View Post
    Recommend you stop using any sort of oil on snakes! It tends to mess up future sheds​. That's why just a drop or 2 of Dawn or Ivory dish-soap liquid in a shallow, luke-warm water soak is better: it drowns the mites but it also rinsed away, causing no shed problems for the snake.
    Petroleum-based oil products, such as Vaseline or many hand creams, cause scale damage. Olive or veggie oils are fine, just messy, and I wouldn't use them unless I had no other option (like the snake that got permethrin poisoning).

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    Re: Mites treatment

    Quote Originally Posted by bcr229 View Post
    Petroleum-based oil products, such as Vaseline or many hand creams, cause scale damage. Olive or veggie oils are fine, just messy, and I wouldn't use them unless I had no other option (like the snake that got permethrin poisoning).
    Agree ^ ^ ^
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    Re: Mites treatment

    Quote Originally Posted by Bogertophis View Post
    So I just watched this & he seems to be promoting olive oil from one instance where a snake he got had a few mites & after this treatment, the mites were gone, so now he routinely uses this as his go-to mite prevention method.
    I agree with you, olive oil is not an effective mite treatment. .
    I wasn't relay suggesting olive oil as an effective mite treatment, just as a test for new snakes to see if there are mites. a little olive oil helps them come off in the paper towel so you can see if there is a problem that needs treating.
    Like i said in the first post, if there were mites detected by that process I would then move on to to other more effective treatments.
    If not I would just treat the housing before use (and not the snake) as a quarantine precaution for mite eggs.

    Also to others yes agreed keep away from petroleum products
    Last edited by Ascended; 05-13-2021 at 05:27 PM.

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