Thanks for the advice, i can obtain prevent a mite locally, but ill order it online since it seems to be cheaper, even with next day air shipping, than my local source charges. I am going to bring him to the vet on saturday (my next day off) i already called and made the appointment. the vet wanted stool to check for internal parasites but alas, no poop from the poopmaster yet. I am pretty sure they arent ticks, because A they are small and B none of them look like ticks (not stationary, and not sucking blood from him) they all just seem roam around, i never spotted one that looked like it was sucking blood or anything. AGAIN, THANKS a bunch for the help. This is definately a board im going to frequent, specially being new to herp keeping im finding it hard to get good info locally. Also he started to shed today i noticed on my lunch hour when i went home to make sure they werent ticks heh. So im sure the poor thing is all sorts of uncomfortable, im gonna give him a warm water bath when i get home in t minus 5 hours.