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alex
Snake Mite

United Kingdom
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Posted - 25/10/2011 :  22:15:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
hi all just gone to change monties water and found some small bugs under the orchird bark substrate. the orchid bark comes from a good pet shop so can i still expect to find small bugs in amongst it. I thought they may have been mites but left mony on some kitchen roll for a bit and there were no mites left over on the paper! they were very small bugs but could see them crawling about

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Posted - 25/10/2011 :  22:35:22  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi, someone else recently found bugs in bark substrate -
http://www.theroyalpython.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6983

Often tiny critters like compost gnats, springtails and the like live in damp substrate and are harmless to the snake - are your bugs anything like the ones on this thread?

The dreaded mites are usually noticed first as black dots in the water bowl.

Hope it isn't mites and hope this helps.

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alex
Snake Mite

United Kingdom
45 Posts
Posted - 25/10/2011 :  22:49:26  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
hi bats thanks for the reply, they didnt look black and there isnt any thing in the water bowl. what do mites look like?
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blackskull
Fully Grown Royal

United Kingdom
1278 Posts
Posted - 25/10/2011 :  23:05:09  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
best way to describe them is like little black dots. if you get one on your finger and look very closely you might be able to see the legs. as bats says the best sign of them if you cant see them on the snake is in the water as the snake will soak to ease the feeling of them
1.1 normal royal, sully, silver
0.1 pinstripe royal, penny
1.1 pastel royal, lars, clover
0.1 lesser royal, serenity
0.1 black pastel royal, betty
0.1 mojave royal, mavis
0.1 normal het clown
1.0 pastel het clown
1.0 nuclear, ned
1.0 super phantom
1.0 childrens python, myles
0.1 hog island boa
0.1 sonoran x boa, grace
0.0.1 mack snow leopard gecko, munchkin
4.1 cats, stan, dave, marble, binx, daisy
4.1 rabbits, mol, ted, bill, spud, alice
0.1 crazy cat/bunny lady of bridgwater, lucy
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Posted - 25/10/2011 :  23:05:21  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
http://www.theroyalpython.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1320

Like this ...I'd bet anything that what's in your orchid bark isn't mites. Fingers crossed!

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boomslang
Old Royal - I Post too much!

United Kingdom
2025 Posts
Posted - 25/10/2011 :  23:23:17  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophionyssus_natricis
Google it,theres some really good pics.
1.0.0 pinstripe Royal Python
1.0.0 Bumblebee Royal Python
1.0.0 Normal corn
1.0.0 Extreme red Hognose
0.1.0 Extreme red tiger Hognose
1.1.0 yemen chameleons
1.0.0 Piebald yemen
1.0.0 Tamatave panther
1.0.0 Quadricornis
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