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    Well it's 415 and the job is about done. Seeing as tho it was past 11pm when I found the problem I couldn't go to the store for anything to kill mites. I hear they don't work well anyway. I started by taking my hypo out and noticed that he too had a few. I bathed him first knocking off any of those evil creatures. Then I inspected him very closely to find the ones In his scales once I found them I drowned them in water so they would come out a little, then I squeezed them out like you would a pimple! The ones around the head and pits are pain but I finally got them. The one in the pit I used a damp q-tip to rub out. Then I bleached the hell out of evvvverything soaked it all in water to drown the remaining A holes. I did this for all my snakes. I put down paper towels on the floor of their tubs so if any are creeping around I'll know and I'll start the whole process again.


    Ok now so how did I get the mites? I picked up a baby normal from pet co last week. Which like drinking milk on a hot day was a bad choice. But hey whatever it's not the animals fault so I showed him the same love I did my ghost and got all the little boogers off him. So the moral of the story is I must really love these snakes to still be up doing this.
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    Re: Spending the night killing mites!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by Rob View Post
    Ok now so how did I get the mites? I picked up a baby normal from pet co last week. Which like drinking milk on a hot day was a bad choice. But hey whatever it's not the animals fault so I showed him the same love I did my ghost and got all the little boogers off him. So the moral of the story is I must really love these snakes to still be up doing this.
    The moral of the story is practice strict quarantine on new animals so issues like this don't spread, and always pretreat new animals' enclosures for mites.
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