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  • I regularly preventively treat my cages.

    6 28.57%
  • I don't preventatively treat my cage, but am open to doing so.

    6 28.57%
  • I'm against preventive treatments.

    2 9.52%
  • I use non-chemical preventive treatment methods

    1 4.76%
  • Other (Please explain below)

    6 28.57%
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    Re: Preventive Mite Treatment?

    Quote Originally Posted by satomi325 View Post
    I treat all new additions no matter what. If they have mites, they get treated in QT. If they don't have mites, they still get pre-treated in QT.
    I think it's always important to pre-treat new comers.
    That's my preventative measure to keep my resident animals safe since mites can be vectors to illness and disease.

    I don't routinely treat my resident animals if they don't have it.
    However, I do know some of the more larger breeders like Brian Gundy, who do treat for mites monthly or every other month as a preventative.
    It's no different than putting a monthly flea medication on your dog, imo.

    I think if some of the larger breeders (like BHB or others who regularly have animals going in and out of their facility with no QT) utilized regular mite treatments, they wouldn't have such a large mite problem. With that many mites, it's just asking for potential disease spread....

    This. QT and treating while in QT is my only preventative measure. My collection is healthy and mite free and is kept mite free with just this
    Females: 0.1 fire; 0.1 sugar; 0.1 GHI; 0.1 pinstripe het desert ghost; 0.1 mojave spider; 0.2 mojave; 0.1 black pewter blast; 0.1 leopard pied; 0.1 champagne; 0.1 pied; 0.1 super pastel lesser; 0.1 pewter; 0.1 spider het pied, 0.1 bumblebee; 0.1 lesser; 0.1 spider; 0.1 normal; 0.3 het pied
    Males: 1.0 het desert ghost; 1.0 pastel pied; 1.0 leopard; 1.0 black pastel; 1.0 enchi; 1.0 mojave; 1.0 cinnamon; 1.0 pied; 1.0 vanilla

    Other species: 1.0.3 pacman frogs (sunkissed, super apricot, super blue, super lime green); 0.2 crested gecko; 1.0 hypo hog island boa; 0.1 normal boa; 1.0 rottweiler; 1.0 chihuahua

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