bearded dragon mites

[breaky]

hello, i have recently noticed little black mites around the eyes of my beardies,i have removed them with a dampened cotton wool bud,but they keep coming back,any ideas how to get rid of them completely,bath them ,treatments etc.

[CTO-Reptiles]

get some frontline, i brought 2 beardies and they was covereed in them 2 weeks later they was gone, all i did was spary the beardies once a week and the mites went,

[ak1]

i would say to get frontline too, altthough i wouldn't spray it directly on the beardie, spray some on your hand and massage it onto the beardies body, they will be gone in no time

[DeanThorpe]

how do you get frontline? is it still vets only? or do they sell it elsewhere?
and can you get it in larger portions than the little bits yiou get for cats? [presume dogs are bigger but dont have a dog.. lol]

also do you dilute it?

[nicky]

also spray viv, leave to air for abit before popping beardie back in...

[CTO-Reptiles]

you can still only get it from the vets, when we got it the vet had all different size bottles so i take it you can get different sizes, no you don't dilute it, just use it straight out the bottle

we was told to spray it on the beardies then rub it in, and not to bother about sparying the viv as you are wasting it, the mite on the beardie would die then more would climb on to them from the viv and they would die off and so on

[nicky]

you can get it online cheaper but still need to have a prescription from vets....

[xXFooFooLaFluffXx]

Originally Posted by nicky

you can get it online cheaper but still need to have a prescription from vets....

how dya do that then??

[linda.t]

you can now buy it at pets at home & get it on line with out pescription
cheers linda

[zukomonitor]

Originally Posted by breaky

hello, i have recently noticed little black mites around the eyes of my beardies,i have removed them with a dampened cotton wool bud,but they keep coming back,any ideas how to get rid of them completely,bath them ,treatments etc.

my pet shop has got things for all beardie problems, and the guy is trustworthy( known him for years) he says this stuff was normal only available to breeders (as he was one of the first to import beardies from USA). cant remember what its called but goin in tommorrow. would definitely talk to vet to find best solution but im weary about frontline, as i have been told its not that good for my dog!