Can anyone confirm this.

[AZUK]

Originally Posted by gaz

i used it and found that if used sensibly it worked out stanley well,much better than today's safety conscious has to be tested to destruction an dont work that well anyways products,they all require several steps to achieve the success rate that a vapona strip from tesco could produce simply by unpacking it and leaving it in a room,in all the years i used it never had a single problem,its all about the user at the end of the day innit
regards gaz

Ah them were the Days.
Vapona pest srtip....... the one method that actually worked...very well as it happens !
I never had a problem with it as well but like mentioned it was linked with Cancer and taken off sale.
Hello....... so do Fags and a 1001 other things in general use !
Shame the British public are not allowed to make up their own minds on certain things.

[Nerys]

vapona yes.. i was prescribed it by a vet back in 1996 to get rid of mites on a royal... the stip you hung in the tank.. and had to remember to take the water out..

i too had heard since about bad effects on reptiles tho, and there is also the fact that it is supposed to be a carcinogenic..

joel i would advise dropping maureen collinson a pm, and getting her to add her thoughts on it all..

Nerys

[Paul Chase]

I used to use it for about 20 years,until it got baned, I still used it for a couple of more years after, a mate used to bring me some back from hamm.
Most snakes years ago were W.C and loaded with mites and ticks. The easiest way to rid your colection of these were to use vapona. Hang a medium sized one in my shed for a day and all ticks were gone. You did need to remove all water bowls and not feed during this time. I never had any problems.
I live near a dairy farm (well i used to work on the farm) and summer times all the houses down the road used to get swamped with flies. Every one here used to hang vaponas in our houses for the whole of the summer.

[shep1979]

i used to use it about 15 years aand ys it was great it got rid of them no problem just the usual take the water out and put a piece in a crix box and leave in for a day ,i didnt know it has been banned now tho

[Fangio]

Everyone used it back in the day. I never had any problems. Had to be sensible with it's use and take precautions. Worked wonders though!

[snickers]

Yes it works, very well and it's non-intrusive.

Diclorvos was banned because it might be dangerous to the people manufacturing it, not the people using it.

A 1" square in a crix tub overnight killed mites. Then again a week later after the eggs hatched.

I would use it in preference to anything else if I could find some.

[Dan Bristow]

yep i used it too. it worked brilliantly and never had any probs with it!

[medusa0373]

I vaguely remember my ex using Vapona for mites, like someone said it was put in a butter/marg tub with holes in it so the snakes couldn't access it but so that it still "breathed" or whatever.

Worked excellently!

[Robk]

I've used it aswell.A small piece in a 35mm film container with holes in.Took the water out and put the vapona in the viv for 8hrs a day.Worked great never had a problem.

[SNAKEWISPERA]

Thanks people,

Thanks for the replies,

This has got me thinking - Why dont we do this anymore, if it worked so great why did we stop, anyone have more detail about the effects people have talked about ?