Help Mites!

[Jake Dubz]

so can you accually SEE mites??? lol I think my snake MIGHT have em but i don't even kno if the things are visible with the naked eye

[zooplan]

you should see the mites the biggest are about 1 mm of length.
Give your snake a bath with a single drop of liquid soap and you´ll see them in the water. Cleaning and bathing are very helpful to fight the mites but you´ll have to catch them all up to the last or the story will start again.
If´you have spiders or insects in your collection you must not use any
drugs to fight the mites or may kill those too.

[RZL36]

I bought a Lampropeltis getula floridana that had mites from a Hamburg show last year. Got Mite Off by Zoo Med and it solved it very quickly.

Get a big plastic container and put the snake is there for a day or two. Spray the Mite Off on the snake in the plastic container with good proportion. Then, scrub every bit of the snake's normal cage with bleach and get rid of anything that was ever in there unless it is plastic. The plastic stuff needs to be soaked it in bleach too. Let it sit for a bit, and obviously, rinse well (snakes don't like breathing in that stuff anymore than we do). I was so surprised how easy it was to kill mites with the Mite Off.

Rich

[KITKAT]

so can you accually SEE mites??? lol I think my snake MIGHT have em but i don't even kno if the things are visible with the naked eye

Like little black pepper flakes

[RZL36]

You will normally see them near the eyes. The young are little and white, then turn to very small black bugs. As they get bigger, and normally get themselves onto the snake they head right for the eyes. It's the most penetrable area for a parasite.

I had them on a big juvie king and they seemed be irritating her horribly. Could they really do a number on small garter?