Provent-a-Mite available in Canada?

[displacedinbc]

Hi :

I'm a new BP owner (2) and have just changed the substrate in their tanks and they now have mites. I am having a problem trying to locate Provent-a-Mite here in Canada. I live in British Columbia, so if anyone please has any info for me being able to purchase this product in Canada (preferly BC) could you please help me out asap.

If it's not available here in Canada, will the product be allowed into Canada through customs from a online purchase.... or does anyone know of a replacement for it if that is needed?

thanks....

[Toronto Python Gurus]

hey im in toronto and there are a few mite sprays you can get here, i had a mite problem a while back and i just used a ivory soap and water mix. . . i made them a bath in my bath tub, with a few drops of ivory soap make sure the water isnt above 85F . . . after they had a good soak i would take them out individually rub them down with a towel then go over them with a little tool to pic the mites from under their scales and in their heat sensors, also if you notice they might have some in their eye area i used a q-tip to rub gently over the eye area to get the mites out.

also while they were soaking i would clean their rubbermaids to make sure to get any mites and eggs left behind, i find that if take the rubbermaids outside and use a blow dryer the mites will die becuase the hair dryer is too much heat for them to handle and eventually they cook and fall off the rubbermaids....

hope this helps!!! . . . it worked for me takes 1-2 weeks to get rid of them all, mites are a pain in the ass

[Slim]

Bruce, one of the Mods here will chime in, I'm sure. He's from the Great White North. If you can get a hold of some, PAM is a lot easier than anything else out there. It's certainly easier than picking mites out of heat pits with a tool....I'm having a hard time picturing that one. LOL

[Toronto Python Gurus]

lol by tool i meant tiny tweazers and i think washing them and pickin the mites off is more efficient then sprayin them with pam IMO . . . if you spray them with pam the mites just fall out of the heat pits???

[iVoodoo]

Hey I am in BC as well the Fraser Valley, and I have hunted high and low for PAM and no way no how, not a chance out this way I wanted to have it around just in case.... But I had to order it online instead! Welcome fellow BC'er! 2010 Sucks! LOL

[Bruce Whitehead]

At work right now, so I cannot locate the info, but I know that both PAM and Black Knight are available in CA.

I have, and have used, both.

I know it does come up through BC, in fact, I think BC may be one of the only distribution points (from what I have been told)... from there it is distributed through the rest of the country.

I had 2 rescue boas that were infested with mites... did not take much to get rid of them, and there were no re-infestations.

I will do a check when I get home and see if I can locate the info on where to get it.

Bruce

PS: I just remembered that another person on this site told me that got theirs at one of the chain stores... one of the many PET places... smart, land or one of those. May be worth getting on the phone and seeing if there is one of the big PET box stores in your neighbourhood and giving them a call in the meantime.

[displacedinbc]

Bruce:

I'm off to work now and won't be home till late. If you can find out who has it here in BC and post it here I will be very grateful....

thanks....Don

[frankykeno]

Well if all else fails I suppose you could email the makers of P.A.M.

http://www.pro-products.com/miteandtemp.html

There is an email link there and I would think they would know who they sell their product to in Canada for resale.

[iVoodoo]

Hey I am in BC as well the Fraser Valley, and I have hunted high and low for PAM and no way no how, not a chance out this way I wanted to have it around just in case.... But I had to order it online instead! Welcome fellow BC'er! 2010 Sucks! LOL

[Slim]

lol by tool i meant tiny tweazers and i think washing them and pickin the mites off is more efficient then sprayin them with pam IMO . . . if you spray them with pam the mites just fall out of the heat pits???

With PAM, you don't spray the snake, you treat the enclosure. The mites die off from the treatment. Kills the eggs too, so you don't have to play the same game 30 days later.