Proactive mites/etc maintenance? - Page 2

Skumbo · 02-22-12, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Gungirl

You Quarantine by keeping them in separate rooms, washing your hands and clothes after you handle the new one. Never mix tongs, hides or anything. If you use something for your new snake it must be cleaned and disinfected before it goes into the room with your other snakes.

Hm.. what if i don't have two rooms to put them? That said, i wouldn't assume Dave would send out a snake w/ mites on it, what about keeping them in tubs (using big tubs for now till they need full sized cages) near each other and otherwise do all the other stuff, as I have my EMT first response certification, i'll just treat everything as a contagion for a while.. lol!

ill just get some anti mite stuff to have on hand just in case

Gungirl · 02-22-12, 02:33 PM

I would do your best to keep them as far away from each other as you can. Some things that they can carry to cause harm or kill another snake are air born..

Skumbo · 02-22-12, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Gungirl

I would do your best to keep them as far away from each other as you can. Some things that they can carry to cause harm or kill another snake are air born..

Such as? I honestly dont have a good room to put them in, we have a livingroom/kitchen and two bedrooms, they'll be in the other bedroom which is the quietest and only room w/ consistent temperatures, not to mention the only place with room enough to put them

Gungirl · 02-22-12, 02:45 PM

So place them on opposite sides of the room....

Skumbo · 02-22-12, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Gungirl

So place them on opposite sides of the room....

The other side of the room has the floor heater as well as my gaming computer (and therefore whirry noises and a good 1000W power supply unit exhausting hot air towards the direction of where id have to put the tub) its not a huge room, im working w/ a 950 sq ft apartment.

It was more a question of curiosity rather than me looking for "Oh airborne stuff can kill them. yup. just believe me." I'd rather learn what it is rather than "something"

**millertime89** · 02-23-12, 12:55 AM

WARNING HUGE PICTURE!
this is how my room is set up. I can't provide a perfect quarantine as my roommates don't want the snakes in the living room/dining room, so this is what I came up with. The big tub in the closet is the QT tub and will be filled sometime tomorrow.

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Caylan · 02-23-12, 01:05 AM

Use paper towel substrate to start and a white water bowl in my opinion is awesome. Keep the cage in a separate room and deal with the snake at the end of the day, and of course be clean. Personally, I NIX all new additions as well as their paper towel substrate. Then just watch and apply necessary adjustments, but usually this, means mites are no problem, even if they do come on the snake... Then just wait out the proper quarantine period for illnesses or odd behaviours. I do 3 months, some do 1, some do a year. Just play it by ear really. Some snakes never get introduced to the main group...

Skumbo · 02-24-12, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Caylan

Use paper towel substrate to start and a white water bowl in my opinion is awesome. Keep the cage in a separate room and deal with the snake at the end of the day, and of course be clean. Personally, I NIX all new additions as well as their paper towel substrate. Then just watch and apply necessary adjustments, but usually this, means mites are no problem, even if they do come on the snake... Then just wait out the proper quarantine period for illnesses or odd behaviours. I do 3 months, some do 1, some do a year. Just play it by ear really. Some snakes never get introduced to the main group...

the only "problem" with that is im getting a BRB, they need high humidity and paper towels arent exactly the best for that.

shaunyboy · 02-24-12, 01:18 PM

heres a website of a friend of mines

he explains using defender mites for those of us who don't like to use chemicals

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct...oiywXA&cad=rja

i use provent a mite if i have mite problems,but.....

i personally would NOT use it EVERY month as a preventative measure,as imo it would be exposing my snakes to too much chemicals

that said,i do use it ONCE as a preventative measure,in my quarantine tanks for new snakes

cheers shaun

p.s.i hope my links ok wayne,its a friends site but not a forum