Quote Originally Posted by SlitherinSisters View Post
Don't ever use treatment on your rodents, you never know what kind of effect it will have on the snake that ingests the treated rodent. Spraying the tub/tank the rodents are in would be about the only thing I would feel comfortable with, and I would use PAM for that since it's safe to spray in the snake tubs as well.

Are you breeding the mice yourself, or just keeping them until your snake eats them? Do you have a lot? If you don't have a big colony, I would just feed them all off. Clean everything out really good, and get some new stock. I have some flea spray for the house I got from the vet that I use during flea season in areas the cats/dogs spend a lot of time in. The spray kills mites as well, I would get something like that and spray it in the area the mice where in. Just make sure you get the snakes far away from any fumes from the spray. I usually go room by room, close the door, and wait 2 hours before letting the animals back in.
I got some all natural, non-toxic stuff from PetCo last night.

There's 3 mice affected.

I don't breed or maintain a "colony", they're just food for the two thick heads who refuse F/T.

I'd love to feed them off but the one snake is on a hunger strike and the other is being treated for an RI and isn't in the mood to eat yet.

I could just turn them loose in the smokehouse and they could live with the field mice who hang out in there, sneak-eating my goat feed.
[or I could feed them to Leah who'll happily eat live or F/T without getting "stuck"]

I'm thinking it's the new shavings.

My other aquarium of pet mice has no mites but they're on the old aspen bedding I bought a bag of several months ago.

What's the name of the flea spray you use?

I have to be really careful because Ibizan Hounds are terribly sensitive to chemicals and most flea sprays are totally forbidden for them.