Well, thank goodness for quarantine. That "no sign of mites" thing? Yeah, today I was cleaning Miss Thang's cage and saw black dots in her water bowl. So I picked her up to look at her more closely and the dratted crawling poppy seed on my hand kind of gave it away.

I'm so glad I already had a can of Provent-a-Mite on hand. I've got her bin re-cleaned and sprayed (waiting to make sure it's good and dry) and Rose is soaking. I'm also going to be keeping a really close eye on the remainder of our beasties, all of which are in different rooms from Rose. I'm kind of torn as to whether or not I should treat all our other enclosures prophylactically or not. I'm leaning toward not, because poison is poison and I'd rather not spread it around if there's no need, but that may be my still admitted newbieness/ ignorance talking. I've only been keeping since 2012, and this is my first run-in with mites.

Thoughts welcome.