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OK, those that knew, really did know. I can be a little thick-headed sometimes. Sorry, I am beginning to be a believer, finally. So anyway, I have many centipedes. Not very many sp though. I have one S. h. heros that came down with bad vamp mites really fast. I know how that happened. I pinpointed the source. So it is under control. My strat was to isolate the pede and keep it on thin dry substrate with a cap of water. I tried this once with this sp of mite and after two months the pede still had mites. Not as many but it still had them. I finally mailed that centipede to someone that knew it had mites. It seemed to be working though...the dry sub strat. I had some old containers that used to have centipedes in them with old substrate sitting around. A couple of them have hundreds or maybe thousands of the fast moving mites that I was hoping were the predatory mites. I noticed the infested pede's container was sterile of the fast moving mites before I isolated it a few weeks ago. So I decided to put the infested pede in a container that had all the fast mites moving around in it just a while ago. Well within seconds, the bigger faster mites were running all over the pede and attacking the smaller vamp mites between the tergites. Either that or they are attacking the centipede...naaaaaa. I will keep you updated as I'm sure some of you out there have had the same prob. Here's a pic seconds after I put the pede in the container with the bigger faster predatory mites. Looks to me that they are attacking the smaller, bad mites. Man, I sure hope so. I know some might be thinking that they are just bigger bad mites but that's not what I'm thinking. If they are, I will just have to isolate it and forget about it. Wish the dude luck!
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