A warning about live feeder mice and rats.....

[Freakie_frog]

She had a few mites on her, I'd say we physically saw maybe 10? All tiny, no adult ones. I saw none on the paper towels (my substrate) following treatment. We have had her for about a month and a half. We also didn't touch any reptiles while we were at the store, it could be possible but highly unlikely that we brought them home on our clothes... And wouldn't we have infected more than just her if they were on us?


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Yep I'd treat the entire rack.

We have had her for about a month and a half.

If memory serves the life cycle of a reptile mite from egg to adult is about 45-60 days..so it's still possible that she came in with them. The Idea that there were 10+ reptile mites on an animal that they don't feed on that transferred to your snakes and caused her to soak 24 hours later means that there were dozens that the snake ate on the rat which means that some got on you, the cage, and might have migrate to anything the rat came in close proximity to. Just food for thought.