I visited DR mark peckham(sp) who is a supposedly known herp vet and comes recommended by every reptile shop in town.

looks like hank does not have an RI afterall. He did discover mites though, which I already knew about. I expressed to him that he had not been spending any time in his hides, and he recommended that I take away some furniture, he also said I should only have one hide on the hot side for now.... I took out his tall rock that he climbs around on. but dont know that I want to take any of his hides away. he also told me the humidity should be of no concern to this snake, and that if he needs humidity during shed he'll find the water bowl.

I told him i was using provent a mite and he started talking about how the direction of use for that thing are very wrong, because if I use it in the form it was intended (which is apparently not an aerosol but a diluted spray) mites should be gone in less than 4 weeks. He left me the option to continue using the provent a mite though and I shall continue and see what happens.

The guy clearly knows his stuff, alot of people i know go to him but the comments about humidity kind of threw me off. I told him i had choro-plast covering the top of my tank to maintain a certain level of humidity and he said to take them off...


thoughts?