Quote Originally Posted by Pythonfriend View Post
that is exactly what i never want to do. i want to differentiate it into 3 categories: beneficial, neutral, harmful. And i want to intervene only when my identification says harmful.

its always the first impulse to kill everything. but they can help with smell reduction and cleanup. why is it always the first impulse to kill everything? is it just to be on the safe side, or is it to spare you the effort to take a closer look?
Absolutely the safe side. I have a ball python because I'm willing to care for it and put in the responsible effort to maintain cleanup and smell reduction myself. I don't need bugs that do it for me. Like I said, not worth the risk. Once one parasite gets in, symbiotic or not, there's room for others to get in.