I have a Ball Python... he is about 1 and a half, maybe 2 feet long. I was using a forest blend repti-bark, when I noticed only 3 mites crawling on my boy, I broke them in-half with my fingernail (like you do for fleas on dogs and cats) I used repti-relief.... and they just clustered onto his head (like 4 maybe 5 of them). So I washed EVERYTHING in his enclosure with hot water, and dried it off, I took all of the repti-bark out, and washed the tank with repti-reliefs, then washed it with hot hot hot water, and dried it out. Instead of putting repti-bark in as a substrate I now have Paper Towel, and I rinsed my boy off with luke warm water and dried him off by letting him slither through a sweater of mine, and re-applied the repti-relief to him (it says on the bottle to be used on reptile, just not in their eyes, so I've only ever applied it to his body, never his head)...... I dont see any mites..... did I defeat them? are they gone?
2006-11-30
07:52:32
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Missy C
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