so I pulled out my baby boa today to get a quick look at her, and what do I find? About four darned mites crawling on her. A closer inspection of her water bowl revealed two more in there as well. So out everything came from her cage and the ball's cage, and everything was cleaned with a 20% bleach solution and rinsed out. Now the ball's cage is airing out (he has a display type cage, so it's taking longer) and the boa's cage is already aired. She's back in there now, paper towels as substrate, hides have been bleached and her water bowl has been cleaned with piping hot water and soap.
Now, I've gotten a tip from someone who works at a local reptile store to use Nix (made for human head lice and nits) and then found this post about it's use on sSNAKESs http://www.ssnakess.com/forums/gener...ake-mites.html
Has anybody else used this, and with what success? I intend to start the spraying pretty much immediately as I just bought the Nix and distilled water, but wanted second opinions.
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