Mites...cripes

[Salamander Rising]

Places like that make me sad for the animals


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It's a pretty iffy place for all their animals.

Their rodents are sickly.

Their birds look dirty.

They sold me 3 albino bristlenose cats who totally wiped out my established 40 gallon freshwater tank with a disease no one could identify let alone treat.

I was in there last week getting a bottle of the Reptile Relief stuff and a tiny little RTB just kept tracking me and it looked like it was begging me to take it from its dry, cold prison.

I couldn't.

Not only was it priced insanely, who knows what it's carrying.

Poor little thing was so sweet and adorable.

Even worse, it was much different from its tank mates.

Very light with greatly reduced saddles, almost as if it were pastel.

Poor little snake.

[Salamander Rising]

OMG...I just spayed my kids with RR and then somebody says it kills snakes?

Seriously?

The bottle says "non-toxic".

[nimblykimbly]

It's a pretty iffy place for all their animals.

Their rodents are sickly.

Their birds look dirty.

They sold me 3 albino bristlenose cats who totally wiped out my established 40 gallon freshwater tank with a disease no one could identify let alone treat.

I was in there last week getting a bottle of the Reptile Relief stuff and a tiny little RTB just kept tracking me and it looked like it was begging me to take it from its dry, cold prison.

I couldn't.

Not only was it priced insanely, who knows what it's carrying.

Poor little thing was so sweet and adorable.

Even worse, it was much different from its tank mates.

Very light with greatly reduced saddles, almost as if it were pastel.

Poor little snake.

Awh that's just sad. Is there no other place you can get your stuff from? That place sounds like the place that I had gotten my feeders from before I found out that Pet Supermarket sells sizes of feeder rats. They actually had a red tailed boa in the same enclosure as a ball python... no heat, only one half log hide that was barely big enough for the one snake. All of his animals look sickly, or just plain unhappy. I know what you mean about wanting to take it home, but not wanting to risk the possible outbreak at your own home.

OMG...I just spayed my kids with RR and then somebody says it kills snakes?

Seriously?

The bottle says "non-toxic".

It's not going to kill your snake. Just spray only the body (NOT face or head) and then rub it all over your snake's body. Spray a little in your hand, and rub it lightly under and on top of it's head.

[Salamander Rising]

Have you tried predatory mites?

What the heck are they?

If they'll kill the mites I have, I'd love to try them.

[Salamander Rising]

Awh that's just sad. Is there no other place you can get your stuff from? That place sounds like the place that I had gotten my feeders from before I found out that Pet Supermarket sells sizes of feeder rats. They actually had a red tailed boa in the same enclosure as a ball python... no heat, only one half log hide that was barely big enough for the one snake. All of his animals look sickly, or just plain unhappy. I know what you mean about wanting to take it home, but not wanting to risk the possible outbreak at your own home.


It's not going to kill your snake. Just spray only the body (NOT face or head) and then rub it all over your snake's body. Spray a little in your hand, and rub it lightly under and on top of it's head.

Oh crap.

I've gotten some spray on their faces.
[they go crazy when the spray hits their bodies and zoom around]

Should I bathe them??

I ordered my gallon of reptile spray from Amazon.

I don't go in there unless I absolutely have to.

It's too emotionally stressful.

[SquamishSerpents]

I don't know a lot about them, but I've been hearing about them more often. I'm sure you could dig up a little more, but this is what I found with a quick search:

http://webspinners.com/coloherp/cb-n...nakeMites.html

[Salamander Rising]

I don't know a lot about them, but I've been hearing about them more often. I'm sure you could dig up a little more, but this is what I found with a quick search:

http://webspinners.com/coloherp/cb-n...nakeMites.html

I was just reading about them.

They sound great but won't all the NIX/Reptile relief and everything else in the tubs and houses kill them, too?

I can't imagine how I'd ever get all the residue of them.

Darn it I wish I'd heard about them first.

My snakes are getting really sick of being spritzed all the time.

[nimblykimbly]

You'd just have to wait for the residue to lose its potency. I believe PAM is effective for about 30 days, so if you wait about 45 to 60 days, you could probably introduce them. The reptile relief isn't going to hurt your snakes at all. And mine don't seem to mind it. I hold them when I spray them, do you?


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[Salamander Rising]

You'd just have to wait for the residue to lose its potency. I believe PAM is effective for about 30 days, so if you wait about 45 to 60 days, you could probably introduce them. The reptile relief isn't going to hurt your snakes at all. And mine don't seem to mind it. I hold them when I spray them, do you?


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The young Boa girls are like holding slippery twirling worms with one hand and they're fairly long so I just spritz them when I see them stretched out in their houses.

The bigger snakes don't like it but they lay still....mostly.

[xFenrir]

Oh crap.

I've gotten some spray on their faces.
[they go crazy when the spray hits their bodies and zoom around]

Should I bathe them??

I'm sure it won't hurt them. If you're worried I would just take a damp washcloth and wipe their faces (as much as possible, I know how squirmy they can be lol.)




Also when you said "kids" I thought you meant HUMAN kids and I was like "... yeah I don't think you're supposed to spray them with that..."