Envoirment
Arachnosquire
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- Feb 3, 2016
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Usually not bothered about the odd mite here or there - but recently I've found a significant number of them floating in the water dishes of a handful of my tarantulas. I believe the culprit was some mealworms I gave them so all of those have been disposed of and ordering new food from a different supplier.
Should I just keep replacing/washing out the water dishes (which are essentially mite traps) and let the substrate dry out to kill them off? I usually keep on top of removing things like boluses or poo so I don't think that was the issue.
Most of my tarantulas are kept in the standard dry substrate/water dish/hide type enclosures, but I usually overflow the water dish once a week for some of my more tropical species (N.chromatus/A.genic).
Should I just keep replacing/washing out the water dishes (which are essentially mite traps) and let the substrate dry out to kill them off? I usually keep on top of removing things like boluses or poo so I don't think that was the issue.
Most of my tarantulas are kept in the standard dry substrate/water dish/hide type enclosures, but I usually overflow the water dish once a week for some of my more tropical species (N.chromatus/A.genic).