Just a quick mite question.

[Jake95]

This is something i've always wondered, if you start off with a healthy snake, free of mites, can the snake just one day get mites? If so, how? where would they come from?

[frostysBP]

Other reptiles... Whether it's from you going into a hero store and coming in contact. herp shows are a mandatory strip down at the door and shower like crazy before I even get close to my snake room.... I'm sure they could be picked up from outside were other wild reptiles are found...that is why quarantine is so important.

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[bcr229]

Other reptiles... Whether it's from you going into a hero store and coming in contact. herp shows are a mandatory strip down at the door and shower like crazy before I even get close to my snake room.... I'm sure they could be picked up from outside were other wild reptiles are found...that is why quarantine is so important.

This. I keep a can of OFF in the car when I go to a herp show. If I'm not bringing home new critters I spray myself with it in the parking lot before the drive home and then I shower immediately when I get home.

NOTE: Don't do this if you purchased a new animal, as DEET, reptiles, and bugs don't play nicely together.

[Jake95]

Good info! So you pretty much have to bring them in? They won't just "appear out of no where"?

[JoshSloane]

Nope. Mites can't manifest out of nowhere. Has to be transferred via a vector.

Adter expos I strip on the front porch, clothes stay in a sealed bag and go directly to the hot wash. I head to the shower immediately as well.