white things in my leos water

[ilovemypets1988]

hi all, i currently have loads of white things in my leopards water, there are some crickets in the viv with her so i was wondering if it was a possibility that the crickets couldve bred and there young be in the water.

let me know asap please
thanks all

[TeaNinja]

did you dust the crickets with calcium powder?
are the white things clearly alive?

[whoaxmary]

Pictures would help. How often are you cleaning the bowl?

[ilovemypets1988]

yh there definately alive, i cant take a pic as the reflection of the flash on the water, i havnt changed the water in about 4 days as i have a broken wrist and its not gunna be changed until tuesday as i am getting a better cast put on that will allow me alittle more movement, they look like those black crawling things that u see on the surface of pool water but these are white

[NennaMeerkat]

Young crickets would die in a pool of water. Crickets, if wanting to have babies, wouldn't do it in the water bowl. More likely under a hide or something. As others have said...pictures would be nice.

[Jay]

How humid is the viv? IMO they may be Sprintails.

[ilovemypets1988]

the humidity is between 50 and 60%

[ilovemypets1988]

and they are about the size of a pin head or a newly hatched common garden spider

[Gungirl]

I would have someone else change the water asap seeing as you dont know whats in it and fresh water is better for the animal...

[TeaNinja]

I would have someone else change the water asap seeing as you dont know whats in it and fresh water is better for the animal...

i was going to say have someone help change the water also lol. i'd come help you if i didn't live amillion miles away! :)

[ilovemypets1988]

i have changed the water and rinsed the bowl out - well scrubbed it - but within 5 mins, they were back but the following day, they dissappeared. i have discovered some (what looks like) spider egg sacks directly above the water in a crevice on a log so im thinking that thas what they couldve been.

thanks to all of your advice

[NennaMeerkat]

Now that makes sense...but why or I should say how did the spider eggs get into the log?

[ilovemypets1988]

Now that makes sense...but why or I should say how did the spider eggs get into the log?

i have absolutely no idea, its a mystery but 1 thing that springs to mind is a common house spider got into the tank through the air holes and found the log to be the perfect laying ground but thats just speculation

[NennaMeerkat]

Guess you are gonna have to clean out that log more often then. Do a check to make sure it is vermin free. I do the same thing in my leopards tank every once and a while. So many hiding places for small critters.

[ilovemypets1988]

yh thats true, i usually heat soak the log every month (during the full clean) but its amazing how quick these things happen to just appear lol

[Lankyrob]

Just curiuos is there a problem with a house spider in with the snake? Surely they wouldnt pose a risk?

[NennaMeerkat]

I couldn't imagine it. Though I live across the Pond and I know that the "house spiders" we get around here would pose no threat to any reptile. They are just to small to even be able to bite through the scales. Heck the ones I get in my house in particular can't even bite through my skin! Have had some try as I put them outside.

[KrazyKat]

Now wouldn't it be super cool if there was a type of spider that only ate mites?!? Would snatch 'em right of the snake even, completely harmless... that spider would be more than welcome to "set up shop" in my snakes' enclosures. Anybody a bioengineer on this forum? :p jk

[Damion930]

Ther are hypoaspis preditory mites that only eat other mites and ther eggs then die off when ther food supply is gone harmles to reptiles great chemical free way to get rid of mites I've aslo heard lady bugs wrk well