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26-07-2005, 09:49 PM
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Snake Mite Removal and Information
Snake Mites are a parasite that feeds from your snakes blood. They are small and light coloured when young, but will become red/black colour when older and filled with blood. The can move surprisingly far over a period of time, and will easily find their way into neighboring vivs.
First its best to remove substrate if you can and use news paper or paper towels, this helps remove places for the mites to lay eggs and survive away from the snake. The snake may want to soak, this helps relieve the snake and helps to hopefully drown some mites. These are some of the types of removal available: Frontline, the recommended choice is a powerful mite killer and is excellent to clean the viv and surrounding areas, this will kill any roaming mites and all eggs.. it will also provide a residue to help afterwards, however, make sure there is no fumey smell remaining before a snake is placed back in the viv. I personally would recommend only using frontline directly on your snake in a diluted form, as much as 50% if your the paranoid type, but not all people feel this is necessary. One method of applying it is to apply to a cloth and let the snake slither through it in your hand from head to tail, minding that none goes near the eyes or mouth. Also its best to remove the water bowl for a while after application in case the snake goes in the bowl and then drinks some water. Hypoaspis miles predator mites from Defenders Natural Biological Pest Control - These guys are predatory mites and will hunt and kill all snake mites, and will also eat/kill their eggs! after all the bad mites are gone they will die of starvation. These guys need relatively high humidity to survive so you need to get the sprayer out a few times while they do their work. I used these after accidentally infecting a fairly large number of snakes from a new addition. The snakes were in racks so they spread quick! the predator mites did an excellent job of removing them and I definitely recommend using for large scale 'problems'! Ivomec is an injection sometimes offered by VETs that can be given to kill the mites as they feed on the treated blood, I have heard that this can cause damage to reptile organs. It also of course does nothing to treat the mites in the viv, eggs etc etc so this method is not recommend. Oil has been used which is smeared over with a cloth or the snake is bathed in it to starve the mites of air making them let go, or climb out of the scale their under. Seems a slightly messy idea, and would not rid your mite problem alone. --- That's all for now, tired of typing... ill update if I think of something later  Last edited by t-bo; 01-02-2007 at 11:59 PM. 
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10-01-2007, 04:20 PM
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i would just like to point out, that frontline DOES NOT KILL MITE EGGS
should NOT be used on snakes in shed can cause respiratory distress and damage to snakes if there is inadequate ventilation water bowls MUST be removed following treatment, frontline is toxic.. if the snake passed through the water, and later drinks it. it may die in agony. frontline is also toxic to aquatic and amphibeous life. do NOT use it near frogs and fish! ideally should not be used on young snakes, it has been seen to kill neonate boas for instance.. please, if using frontline, do you own research and read about the pro's and con's. it is not a product to just wipe over the snake and not think about.. N
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14-01-2007, 09:19 PM
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Thanks for delivering that in your usual aggressive way 'N'.... I just cant help but reply to your comments....
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08-04-2007, 07:57 PM
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I like Nerys' style though
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08-04-2007, 08:59 PM
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Any chance of a tick one?
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