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| Dibzy-Time |
Posted - 19/12/2009 : 14:31:56
Think my amel corn sammy may have mites.
I cheked on her yesr=terday and she as fine. Looked to day and looked under her head and there was a tiny black think craling around. I got it off and killed it. Ive taken the water bowel and looked and nthere are a few black dots in there.
What should i do and ho uch does all this medication cost roughly?
How do they get them?
Cheers dibzy |
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| HannahB |
Posted - 22/12/2009 : 15:20:31
like kellog said keep bathing them every few days and eventually they will disappear  |
| Dibzy-Time |
Posted - 22/12/2009 : 13:31:32
The thing is the reason they both have mites is becausewhen i baught them they were already in there faun 2gether. I didnt want to split them up so thats how they both have mites |
| Dibzy-Time |
Posted - 21/12/2009 : 15:02:22
Cheers, I went into my local rep shop and askt for advice. They sugeted the bath thing and gunna give that a try. All the spray for mites is over 20 quid so will wait until after xmas to see if the bath thing works.
cheer peeps |
| Kellog |
Posted - 21/12/2009 : 04:51:17
Kellog had mites Dibzy, so I can only talk from my own experience (and as I havent read the posted thread I am sorry if I am repeating information you already know).
We discovered he had mites a few days after we came back from holiday. He had been 'kenneled' at a reptile shop we use and must have caught them there - although none of their other snakes showed signs of them. We were lucky because he went blue while we were away and it was just before he started to shed that my son noticed and asked what all the little black spots were running all over him! He then started shedding and it was manic...he was literally trying to tear his skin off. Think up until then, because he was going into shed, he hadnt felt them properly and had shown no change in behaviour or anything.
My OH acted quickly and immediately got him out and into water to help rid him of the rest of his shed. We then bathed him again and ran him through damp kitchen roll in our hands and then dry kitchen roll. This way you can then look at the kitchen roll for black spots (mites) and red spots (blood). We totally emptied the viv, threw out the substrate, disinfected everything and then put viv back together with only his hide and water bowl, on kitchen roll not substrate (again allowing you to check for mites and blood). I think that mites can stay alive on substrate for a period but cannot on kitchen roll, but am not sure about this so please someone correct me if I am wrong.
When you bath them you need to make sure the bath is clean, with no residue of shampoo or soap in it, and that the temp is approx 25oC, so feels just cool of lukewarm...if that makes sense.
We changed the kitchen roll in his viv daily and bathed him every couple of days. The problem is the eggs they lay, you have to wait until they hatch and then catch them before they can lay any more. The whole process took 6 weeks before we were happy that he was mite free. I think we could have probably returned his viv to normal a week or so before that but it is better to be 100% sure. When we did return his viv to normal we made sure we had baked any wood that had previously been in there and again disinfected everything else. You must wait a while before returning your snake to the viv after disinfecting it to allow the fumes to disperse.
We continued to offer kellog food during this period and he ate as normal. We did not handle him though, except for when it was bath time.
We did try the oil in the bath, but all it did was make the bath slimy, Kellog slimy and my OH slimy! Dont think it actually helped much at all. I know you can use chemical treatments for it but we wanted to use that as a last resort.
I am so sorry that both your snakes have got it. It shows the importance of hygience between handling snakes and you need to be even more aware of this now that you are having to treat both of them. Make sure you wash your hands before you handle the next snake or anything to do with the next snake after handling the first.
I hope this is of some help. It was hard work but it got rid of them in the end and was worth it. I still remember him trying to tear his skin off and it was horrific. Once again, sorry if I have repeated info already in the thread (really should read it sometime!)
Please keep us up to date on how you are getting on.
xxx |
| hiper2009 |
Posted - 19/12/2009 : 19:03:06
quote:
Originally posted by Blackecho
http://www.theroyalpython.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1320
Try reading that, its one option.
Thats a good Thread i think you should post this and sticky it on TCS!! |
| Blackecho |
Posted - 19/12/2009 : 18:53:32
http://www.theroyalpython.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1320
Try reading that, its one option. |
| Dibzy-Time |
Posted - 19/12/2009 : 18:51:38
sammy has mites for defanite now and unfortunatly, o does my snow corn stick.
I havert put anything new in there fauns and washed everything before hand. How could they have cought them? |
| Dibzy-Time |
Posted - 19/12/2009 : 14:39:13
Is there some kind of thing that i can do with oil.? Ive heard a fe things about using oil? hat kind of oil is it and how do i use it? |
