Palmolive Mite treatment????

[MarkS]

ok I just HAD to get in on this. I got a bp from someone a while ago and I had no idea it was INFESTED with mites So I asked around and heard that the mite treatmenst you buy in the stores take forever and don't really work. So someone told me about the dish soap and betadine bath.

You get a tub and add just enough betadine to turn the water a light orangish color. You add 2-3 drops of Dawn dishsoap (what they use to clean oil off of birds, which have extremely sensitive lungs) and soak your snake for 20 minutes. While your snake is soaking, clean the tank thoroughly. Repeat the following 2 days, or until you are mite free.

This worked perfect for me and I would recommend it to any one. I have had NO mites since doing this.

Good luck!

And how long have you been mite free? It can take 6 weeks or longer for mite eggs to hatch and NOTHING kills mite eggs. If you don't have something on hand that will kill them you can end up reinfested quite easily. Yes, I'm sure that this betadine treatment will work well for some people, but it's more the exception then the rule. If you want to be absolutely sure you got them all, you need to use poison.

[Courtney281]

And how long have you been mite free? It can take 6 weeks or longer for mite eggs to hatch and NOTHING kills mite eggs. If you don't have something on hand that will kill them you can end up reinfested quite easily. Yes, I'm sure that this betadine treatment will work well for some people, but it's more the exception then the rule. If you want to be absolutely sure you got them all, you need to use poison.

I've been mite free for 6+ months now.

[MarkS]

I've been mite free for 6+ months now.

Then you got lucky.

[Bill Buchman]

And how long have you been mite free? It can take 6 weeks or longer for mite eggs to hatch and NOTHING kills mite eggs. If you don't have something on hand that will kill them you can end up reinfested quite easily. Yes, I'm sure that this betadine treatment will work well for some people, but it's more the exception then the rule. If you want to be absolutely sure you got them all, you need to use poison.

Rid and Nix DO KILL THE EGGS.

[MarkS]

Rid and Nix DO KILL THE EGGS.

I think you're wrong about that Bill, The egg shells are pretty impermiable protect the embryo pretty well and won't soak up the poisons, the only things that I've heard of that will kill the eggs is steam or boiling water which basically just cooks them in their shell. However, if you've got poisons down that are long lasting, they'll kill the mite when it hatches. (which is why PAM is so effective, it sticks to surfaces and lasts a long long time.)