Columbia rainbow

[SnoopySnake]

Originally Posted by GyGbeetle

Started with PAM for the tank and JurassiMite on the animals. Switched to Nix for everything. Now going back to PAM for the one tank and Nix for all other tanks and on all the animals. It's been 2 months. We've brought in 2 rescues during that time, both are in quarantine, both without mites (thankfully), but I can't in good conscious bring in another snake into quarantine right now. Unless I quarantine at a friend's house, which isn't fair. So I'll wait and pray the mites are gone soon.

How long do you go in between treatments? I found I had to treat about every 5 days and I would also spray around the cages and the floor of the room. Mites creep me out

[GyGbeetle]

Originally Posted by SnoopySnake

How long do you go in between treatments? I found I had to treat about every 5 days and I would also spray around the cages and the floor of the room. Mites creep me out

For the PAM, we treat the tanks every 2 weeks. For Nix, we were treating once a week, but we treated the infected tank yesterday, which was 3 days after our last treatment.

JurassiMite is relatively safe for snakes, so we treat the affected snakes daily, or as frequently as we can. With Nix, we will only spray the snakes once a week; I'm worried, even with the dilution, about over-exposing them to the pesticide in Nix.

We're going to buy PAM again this weekend (our pet store is like an hour away, so suffering through traffic during the week with 3 kids isn't my idea of a good time. We'll wait for the weekend), and only plan to treat the affected tank with PAM. Everyone else will continue with Nix.

I just don't know how much longer I can keep this up. We're going on our second true full month of treatments. I want the CRB, so I'm going to see what can be done. I've already resolved to picking her up. Now I just need to make this a mite-free home first.