What to get?

[dinosaurdammit]

i dont think reptiles magically get mites. All you have to do to check for mites is look under their heads. If it got so bad you noticed them else where you wernt monitoring your snake well. I notice everything about my boas, even when they have a scale that is out of place due to a coil.

The ri also doesnt magically appear as if sent from Nergal. RI's take a while to set up, if your temps and humidity were correct then it shouldnt have been a problem if you didnt notice the drooling, open mouthed breathing, panting, wheezing, and excessive fluid in the mouth with associated bubbles...

[Wildside]

Originally Posted by dinosaurdammit

i dont think reptiles magically get mites.

I must respectfully disagree. Sometimes I think aliens abduct them and put mites on them for teh lulz.

[dinosaurdammit]

Originally Posted by Wildside

I must respectfully disagree. Sometimes I think aliens abduct them and put mites on them for teh lulz.

Makes me think back to high school when we learned that people in the dark ages would believe that a pile of clothes in the corner would magically and spontaneously generate a rat or two. That rats that carried the plague were magically not there and then POOF there they were.

[Wildside]

Originally Posted by dinosaurdammit

Makes me think back to high school when we learned that people in the dark ages would believe that a pile of clothes in the corner would magically and spontaneously generate a rat or two. That rats that carried the plague were magically not there and then POOF there they were.

So how do snakes that are kept in clean cages, and on newspaper, and with the same owner for well over a year, spontaneously generate mites?

[dinosaurdammit]

Originally Posted by Wildside

So how do snakes that are kept in clean cages, and on newspaper, and with the same owner for well over a year, spontaneously generate mites?

Ancient Aliens!


on a serious note maybe its coming in on the bedding or even the mites could have been hibernating or what ever it is mites do. I havnt had an issue with mites but once and its when I got jerry rice. He was infested. Some PAM and daily soaks in warm water and a little bit of mineral oil did the trick. I still treat his and athena's cage once a month just in case of aliens. I wonder if you could just pick them up walking into a reptile shop or brushing against stuff in there. I dont know mite life cycle but it wouldnt surprise me if they could lay eggs that stay dormant until ideal conditions are met. I bake all my bedding, treat with PAM, and make sure all food given has had at least a month in the deep freeze. Call me paranoid but i havnt had magical mites since.

[CMRetics]

Originally Posted by Wildside

I must respectfully disagree. Sometimes I think aliens abduct them and put mites on them for teh lulz.

Originally Posted by Wildside

So how do snakes that are kept in clean cages, and on newspaper, and with the same owner for well over a year, spontaneously generate mites?

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

[Wildside]

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

Aliens... I'm tellin' ya!

[Aaron_S]

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

I would go over who you let in and who you buy animals from. Someone isn't as clean as you are.