White, tiny creatures crawling on my Balls!! :p

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Re: White, tiny creatures crawling on my Balls!! :p

Postby Bianca » Fri Feb 18, 2011 12:49 pm

Thanks Con!

I did have a look at other pictures of wood mites, they look very familiar, only thing is that they did not grow much bigger than a teeeeeeny tiiiiny grain of sugar, and they're white as white can be.

They're gone now, and i'll stay away from bark and other 'woody' substances, i'm upgrading to a bigger tank today with more ventilation so hopefully this will help too.

Whew! Thanks! :)

On a lighter note, I caught my two BP's having a 'moment' this morning!! Eeeee!!
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Re: White, tiny creatures crawling on my Balls!! :p

Postby BOOGY » Fri Feb 18, 2011 12:56 pm

Hi Bianca, how did you get rid of them? I have millions of the darn things!
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Re: White, tiny creatures crawling on my Balls!! :p

Postby Bianca » Fri Feb 18, 2011 3:07 pm

I treated them like proper mites, I didn't have frontline on hand so I used mite-off (I had a bottle lying around), and sprayed the snakes and the hides, water bowls, tank walls and floor, and then kept the snakes in the tank without any substrate. I haven's seen a single one after that.

Read the above comments and see what the others like BV suggested, eg. using vapona in a tablet bottle. I'm sure that will solve your problem, and would be good to give it a try before going to all the effort of spraying the snakes and throwing away brand new substrate. :smt011

Hope you come right!
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Re: White, tiny creatures crawling on my Balls!! :p

Postby BOOGY » Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:25 pm

Thanks will do.
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