Early Christmas Present

[Aundrea]

Stephanie got me an early christmas present :D An albino checkard garter!!! I have always wanted an albino snake so now i have one. He/She is a few months old. Dont have a name yet. Im thinking of either Casper or Sunny. My 4 year old picked out Sunny lol Thanks Stephanie!!!!!!!

Max, Swiper and The new guy. Hes always on top of that neon strip club. Thats his spot lol

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The new guy playing peek a boo with Bennie

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Excuse the poo today is cleaning cage day.

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[Snake lover 3-25]

awwww congrats:D

o yeah..... shouldn't he be quarentined??? just for a little while???

[Stefan-A]

Congratulations. :)

[olive oil]

Awww, how pretty. You are so lucky to have such a great Friend.

[Aundrea]

You know what??? I did a BIG BIG OOPS!!! I think he has Mites. I saw a little tiny bug crawling around him.. I so forgot to do that so I need to take a trip to petsmart to get a container for him to be in and scrub that cage out. I didnt even think about keeping him away from the other guys for a bit :(:mad: I am mad at myself for that. My own stupid mistake. Shame on me:mad::eek: But how to get rid of mites??? Are they little black dots thats move all over the snake?

[Snake lover 3-25]

sure are..... just get some of the mite killer when you go to petsmart...... it's ok happens to everyone:D

[olive oil]

Oh Aundrea, I hate that for you!!!

[Snake lover 3-25]

i'd just try and get them sepetated asap and treat each individually..... and make sure you boil/ bake all the wood stuff in the cage so they don't hide in there...... prob. best to put them in bare cages with just disposible paper products...... and i'd keep the new one seperate just in case..... he may have other parisites........

[Garter_Gertie]

What a WONDERFUL Friend as well as early Christmas present - minus the mites...

Good for you Anudrea! Merry Christmas.

Stephanie, you are a wonderful friend and enabler!

[Charlet_2007]

I wrote this up on my site because I had a 6 foot Burmese go thu these stupid little bugs...
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Dealing With Mites And Other Problems

I know some of us have had those stupid little bugs called MITES.. Just the word
sends a shiver down my back.. I hate them with a passion as do others I talk to..
So what to you do if your snakes have mites? Well it's quite simple really and it takes some time and ALOT of praying.. (Sorry about the pics they are coming
soon)

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Equate lice bedding spray works GREAT!!! ***MAKE SURE IT DOS NOT CONTAIN DEET*** And its like $4.00 bucks if that at walmart back in the meds department..

1. Take the reptile out of it enclosure wash and spray it with water (only water) from top to bottom... (Any and all fake plants, bedding and water bowl NEEDS to thrown away..) Dry entire tank with a towel..

2. While your doing that put the reptile in a plastic tub of warm water to soak NOTHING BUT warm water..

3. Take the tank and spray every bit of the inside and out of the tank with the equate bedding lice treatment do this outside so none of it is in the house.. Let it dry for 30 mins to an hour.. Any excess that has not dried wipe off with a towel you can throw away..

4. Get paper towels and spray 5-6 each individually front and back with the bedding spray.. Wait another 30 mins to put them back in the tank.. ***MUST NOT BE WET OR DAMP WHEN YOU TOUCH THEM*** Lay a layer of them on the bare tank floor..

5. Place the snake that has soaked this entire time back in the tank after you have towel dried him..

6. For extra air place a fan on the lowest setting possible near the tank cage..

7. Leave him in there for about 4-5 hours with that...

I promise you that will take care of the mites faster then anything.. Mites and lice have the same body structure.. This treatment melts them and the eggs. But you may have to repeat in 3-5 days because the eggs that the females layed under the scales will hatch and the 2nd treatment will will get the rest before they can come into adult hood..

[Stefan-A]

At least it's not crypto.

[olive oil]

What is crypto?

[Stefan-A]

What is crypto?
Cryptosporidium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptosporidium)
Cryptosporidiosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptosporidiosis)

Deadly to snakes and there's no cure.

[Snake lover 3-25]

wow that would suck.....

[olive oil]

YUCK!!!
Snakes get this?

[Stefan-A]

YUCK!!!
Snakes get this?
Can wipe out entire collections.

[Snake lover 3-25]

wow that REALLY sucks!!!:eek:

[Stefan-A]

Cryptosporidiosis in Snakes (http://www.addl.purdue.edu/newsletters/1996/summer/snakes.shtml)

[Snake lover 3-25]

you are the google king:D

[Stefan-A]

you are the google king:D
The search words were "cryptosporidiosis" and "snakes". First hit. :rolleyes:

[Charlet_2007]

you crack me up stefan!!!!!!!!! :D:D:D:D

[Snake lover 3-25]

lol you still are:D:p

[drache]

that's creepy stuff

[jitami]

Congrats on your new baby... so sorry about the mites :(

[reptile3]

OMG!!..... I bought the snake, not the mites!!:eek:

We carefully made sure we got this snake from a reputable person, checked fauna.com in the BOI board.

Ummm Aundrea, make sure you contact the person, & let him know.
Darn... i am sorry you have to go through all this.

[Aundrea]

I will try this. Thanks so much for sending this.. Never had to deal with mites before. This is my lucky day LOL :eek: I soaked him last night in warm water and I saw 3 big mites in the water. Poor guy no wonder hes not eating...



I wrote this up on my site because I had a 6 foot Burmese go thu these stupid little bugs...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dealing With Mites And Other Problems

I know some of us have had those stupid little bugs called MITES.. Just the word
sends a shiver down my back.. I hate them with a passion as do others I talk to..
So what to you do if your snakes have mites? Well it's quite simple really and it takes some time and ALOT of praying.. (Sorry about the pics they are coming
soon)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Equate lice bedding spray works GREAT!!! ***MAKE SURE IT DOS NOT CONTAIN DEET*** And its like $4.00 bucks if that at walmart back in the meds department..

1. Take the reptile out of it enclosure wash and spray it with water (only water) from top to bottom... (Any and all fake plants, bedding and water bowl NEEDS to thrown away..) Dry entire tank with a towel..

2. While your doing that put the reptile in a plastic tub of warm water to soak NOTHING BUT warm water..

3. Take the tank and spray every bit of the inside and out of the tank with the equate bedding lice treatment do this outside so none of it is in the house.. Let it dry for 30 mins to an hour.. Any excess that has not dried wipe off with a towel you can throw away..

4. Get paper towels and spray 5-6 each individually front and back with the bedding spray.. Wait another 30 mins to put them back in the tank.. ***MUST NOT BE WET OR DAMP WHEN YOU TOUCH THEM*** Lay a layer of them on the bare tank floor..

5. Place the snake that has soaked this entire time back in the tank after you have towel dried him..

6. For extra air place a fan on the lowest setting possible near the tank cage..

7. Leave him in there for about 4-5 hours with that...

I promise you that will take care of the mites faster then anything.. Mites and lice have the same body structure.. This treatment melts them and the eggs. But you may have to repeat in 3-5 days because the eggs that the females layed under the scales will hatch and the 2nd treatment will will get the rest before they can come into adult hood..

[Aundrea]

Ohhhh you gave me an extra suprise hahahahaha Im KIDDING:eek::eek::D Its ok I guess its my turn to experence the mites LOL



OMG!!..... I bought the snake, not the mites!!:eek:

We carefully made sure we got this snake from a reputable person, checked fauna.com in the BOI board.

Ummm Aundrea, make sure you contact the person, & let him know.
Darn... i am sorry you have to go through all this.

[reptile3]

Provent-a-Mite Spray & quickTEMP Thermometer (http://www.pro-products.com/miteandtemp.html)

PAM- Provent-a-Mite Spray


I got this from the Ball Python group, many of them use this, & it is proven to work!!