Mites.. UGH!!

BrianWI

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Honestly, just buy Frontline spray and throw the rest out. You'll have the bottle a long time, will work on dogs, cats, birds, reptiles....
 

<3exoticpets

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Honestly, just buy Frontline spray and throw the rest out. You'll have the bottle a long time, will work on dogs, cats, birds, reptiles....
Just be aware that Frontline has a different percentage of active ingredient in each bottle (you buy for cats separately from dogs and then each go by weight). You can't just place any Frontline product on any animal.
 

Giantsfan24

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Honestly, the only two treatments I have heard nothing but good reviews when using CORRECTLY are NIX and Hypoaspis. Hypoaspis is a predatory mite that feeds on the snake mites and then dies. It does require a little substrate(eco earth etc) to burrowing in and lay eggs but do a google on it...nothing but positive results. PLUS Hypoaspis can be used with inverts as the pred. mites just eats the bad mites and leave the invert alone.

But Nix also sounds good. I can tell you from personal experience mites on snakes SUX!!!!!!!! I wish I new about NIX and Hypoaspis then. 1 thing I can tell you that bleaching the cage and washing your snake will not eradicate your problem alone. NIX is nice because you can spray everything and it kills the eggs too.
 
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