911 i just found a mite in the water bowl

[frenchy]

Ya I would say bump the humidity up. Ya mites thrive better in higher humidity but why make the a bad shed add to the problem. Also, if your diligent and can catch the snake actually shedding, take her out and clean entire cage throughly. When the snake sheds all the mites come off with the shed so the sooner the better. (NOT A 100% EFFECTIVE STILL NEE THE PAM) but that will help the problem also.



Also any hides that arent plastic bake at 250 for 30 min to an hour along w water dishes... Mites lay eggs and they get in the crevices. The heat will kill those.

[shelby9189]

Ok I wil def watch and try to catch him shedding. He is staying in the water bowl so far my humidity is up to like 52% lol how do I bump it up just mist or what? and I can put all the wood in the oven? How do I clean the plastic? Just with the PAM?

[shelby9189]

Ok my snake shed day before yesterday, since then he has not been soaking or anything.. been hiding yay, well got my PAM today and iv already treated tank once waiting for it to air out. my question is when it is aired out can i put aspen back in or not yet? he has been on paper towels since i found mites. And can i put all of his stuff back in today or just wait till i get rid of mites?

[Annarose15]

Ok my snake shed day before yesterday, since then he has not been soaking or anything.. been hiding yay, well got my PAM today and iv already treated tank once waiting for it to air out. my question is when it is aired out can i put aspen back in or not yet? he has been on paper towels since i found mites. And can i put all of his stuff back in today or just wait till i get rid of mites?

The instructions on the can explicitly say to treat the substrate, not the bare cage. Which did you do? Depending on what the "stuff" is, you might want to treat it with PAM as well. His water bowl can go back in the cage once the PAM has aired/dried out.

[shelby9189]

I did treat the logs and leaves I had in his tank just havent put them back in I just put new paper towels down fixing to put water in. So everything can go back in just tomorrow when I spray it put everything in and then spray? minus water

[frenchy]

Everything can go back in.... The can says treat substrate.... My experience is I dump the substrate at 1st sign of mites. I treated just the tub also. Nonill effects you will be fine. I usually wait a few weeks before i put them back on regular substrate. I do this so I can monitor if mites come back alot easier on paper towels.

[shelby9189]

Oh ok.. Well I put substrate back in but he hasnt been soaking at all thank god but i have def been keepiing an eye out

[OctagonGecko729]

I don't want to derail this thread too much but how would she have gotten the mites in the first place? I thought mites only come in by new snakes, clothes from expos, and used equipment?