i have had my 10 month old bp for about 2 months now and about halfway into the third week of having him i noticed a few mites on him. Since this is my first bp i was unsure of what to do and called the store from which i bought him and inquired as to how to rid him of these annoying little parasites. they were very helpful and told me what to use where to get it and so forth. so i did what they said, and i even repeated the treatment once the fallowing week just to ensure ALL were dead. and sure enough he cleared up and has been clear for at least 2 weeks.

When i called the store they sounded surprised about him having mites, he is captive bred, and the other BPs he was caged with (2 others) were also Captive Born and neither of the other two had developed the mites. now today when i was checking on him he had another 3 mites on him that i saw. so i repeated the process of removing them as i did before.

What confuses me is where these mites are coming from. Could it be from the mice he feeds off of?