ticks !

[Brandon.O]

So when i pulled off that tick off rebels back that one day i though it was all over.

But then i opened her cage yesterday and took her out and was looking at her pretty closely and found about 7-8 more !!!

I was completly horrified and didnt know what to do.

So i just tried to find all of them that i could and put putroleum jelly on them to suffocate them like last time.

The problem is that they are so tiny that they are easy to miss and i dont think the jelly will get me very far. There could be dozens more under her scales

Is there any kind of tick product that i can treat her with ?

I dont know where the ticks even came from.

She has never been outside, never crawls around on the flooor, and has never had any sort of wood put in her cage for this exact reason (fear of ticks)

so do you guys think she had them when i adopted her ??

[Adam_Wysocki]

So when i pulled off that tick off rebels back that one day i though it was all over.

Nope, ticks lay crazy eggs!!

Is there any kind of tick product that i can treat her with ?

Prevent -a- Mite works like a champ. You can get it from Matt.

I dont know where the ticks even came from.

Africa.

so do you guys think she had them when i adopted her ??

Probably from when she was born. Clutches of eggs in Africa are often crawling with ticks. The tick eggs lay dormant inside the female balls' vent I believe.

-adam

[tigerlily]

Oh that is sooo creepy! I didn't know that the tick eggs could lay dormant! Eeewwww....gross!! I am now going to be on tick alert! Good luck Brandon getting those little nasty critters gone!!

[Brandon.O]

I pulled 9 of them off of her today.

She was a captive bred captive hatched snake so i doubt they came from africa.

I will definitly look for some provent-a-mite, i didnt know that stuff worked on ticks

Is there anything i should do with the other snakes ?

Should i treat them with provent-a- mite as well ?

[Adam_Wysocki]

She was a captive bred captive hatched snake so i doubt they came from africa.

"captive hatched" refers to snakes that were hatched on a farm in Africa and imported. Captive bred animals don't have ticks. There are many shady people in this business that lie about the origins of the animals that they sell.

You have to ask yourself, what's more likely ..... that at some point your CH ball python was labeled as "captive bred" by someone in order to make a sale or that ticks spontaneously appeared on a perfectly healthy captive bred animal? hmmmm ... being someone that deals with people in this business on a daily basis, I know what I'd pick

Should i treat them with provent-a- mite as well ?

Yes, as per directions on the bottle.

-adam

[Brandon.O]

Do i have to worry about ticks infesting my room ??

[BiGBaLLiN]

ticks will now begin to intrude your room and cause massive amounts of destruction... to them, it is like taking over the world. just kidding.

[Brandon.O]

Does reptile Relief work well for getting rid of ticks ?

[Schlyne]

From all the accounts I've heard reptile relief doesn't seem to do as good of a job on the enclosure...use the provent-a-mite.

[pinkham64]

OOOOOOOooo that making me itch....... they must drive bps nut i know it would make me go nuts