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12-17-12, 08:02 PM
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Re: What to get?
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Originally Posted by CMRetics
I have no clue. I've had this group of retics breeding/eating/acting 100% fine. I've used the same caging, nix now and then, and I use newspaper as bedding. Randomly a wild mite appears.
It's baffling where these bastards come from LOL
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I would go over who you let in and who you buy animals from. Someone isn't as clean as you are.
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12-18-12, 05:13 AM
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Morelia Enjoyus Maximus
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Re: What to get?
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Originally Posted by Aaron_S
I would go over who you let in and who you buy animals from. Someone isn't as clean as you are.
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Yup. I got mites from a herp shop. After I got them the one time I have had them I of course not knowing they came from there went back for advice on getting rid of them. The owner said it's tough to get rid of them all and they always come back. Thats when I realized his IJ soaking and the mites walking on its head. I put it together and left. Never been back.
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12-18-12, 08:44 AM
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Non Carborundum Illegitimi
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Re: What to get?
This is why if i visit ANYWHERE with reptiles, even a friends collection who i inow is as paranoid as me, i walk into my house, strip completely and shower whilst all clothes go in the washing machine. 
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12-18-12, 09:48 AM
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Village Idiot
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Re: What to get?
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Originally Posted by Aaron_S
I would go over who you let in and who you buy animals from. Someone isn't as clean as you are.
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This reminds me of the guy that's like " I have been faithful to my wife for thirty years but every now and then I randomly get crabs."
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12-18-12, 09:11 PM
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Re: What to get?
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Originally Posted by Aaron_S
I would go over who you let in and who you buy animals from. Someone isn't as clean as you are.
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Originally Posted by Terranaut
Yup. I got mites from a herp shop. After I got them the one time I have had them I of course not knowing they came from there went back for advice on getting rid of them. The owner said it's tough to get rid of them all and they always come back. Thats when I realized his IJ soaking and the mites walking on its head. I put it together and left. Never been back.
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Musta been the new herp shop I visited, as I haven't gone anywhere else that could have mites in a good while, and I just visited a local shop recently, shortly before the outbreak... HMMMMMM
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12-18-12, 10:56 PM
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Wandering Cricket
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Re: What to get?
Mites are a part of reptile keeping... learning to deal with them in the correct manner should be husbandry 101 (or 102 after temps and enclosure sizes).
A quarantine room/area should be part of husbandry 101 but alas nearly everybody fails that class as well...
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12-18-12, 11:08 PM
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Re: What to get?
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Originally Posted by red ink
Mites are a part of reptile keeping... learning to deal with them in the correct manner should be husbandry 101 (or 102 after temps and enclosure sizes).
A quarantine room/area should be part of husbandry 101 but alas nearly everybody fails that class as well...
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I need to start QTing my blue-jeans so they cant transfer mites, I shoulda stayed awake for that chapter for sure!
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12-19-12, 04:49 AM
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Wandering Cricket
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Re: What to get?
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Originally Posted by CMRetics
I need to start QTing my blue-jeans so they cant transfer mites, I shoulda stayed awake for that chapter for sure!
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Probably a good idea if you start going to places with high exposure and high turn over of animals... No doubt that you are being facetious in that statement but hey, I'm not the one wondering how mites miraculously show up in my collection 
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12-19-12, 09:12 PM
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Re: What to get?
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Originally Posted by red ink
Mites are a part of reptile keeping... learning to deal with them in the correct manner should be husbandry 101 (or 102 after temps and enclosure sizes).
A quarantine room/area should be part of husbandry 101 but alas nearly everybody fails that class as well...
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