Help needed now!!

[Blu Mongoose]

I know how to treat mites on a snake, but what can I do about mites on a millipede. I'm not talking a few , I'm talking everywhere. I cleaned her habitat out again and now have her on paper towels so I can change it super frequently. At least they appear to be mites. My eyes aren't as good as they used to be. Not gnats, they don't fly.

[Schlyne]

You can dab at the mites with a qtip swabbed in alcohol. You can dump the substrate and try keeping the millipede on something dryer with more ventilation. You can try paper towels, but be careful, you don't want it to be so dry that the millipede cannot make it.

You make also be able to make a mite trap with a film canister and a dead cricket. Leave the cricket in the film canister and smear the edge with vasoline. The mites may leave the millipede and walk over to the cricket. They will get trapped in the vasoline and be unable to walk back.

You can also order predatory mites which will eat all of the parasitic mites.

[Blu Mongoose]

Thanks, I know they normally have their own mites, but in such large quantities I suspect there may be other problems. I will put her back on her regular type bedding and do a change out every couple of days,I was a little concerned about the paper towels but wanted to eliminate the problem fast.I will try the cricket mite trap and do a complete bedding change about every other day this week.

[recycling goddess]

cool... will that cricket trap work with Ts as well?

[Schlyne]

You can use it for T's as well.