I was feeding my garter yesterday when I saw this little, light-brown-with-dark-horizontal-stripes- bug crawling (surprisingly fast) across his basking rock. I killed it and started looking for more. Found another, and what I think was a third, but couldn't catch it.
NOT COOL!! What was it, how do I get rid them, and keep them from coming back? I'm cleaning his tank TODAY.
Everything in his tank is store-bought/fake. Nothing from outdoors. I've had him for almost a year now, and haven't ever seen any other living thing in there other than his food.
The bug was light brown (tan), with horizontal stipes, round, tick-sized, and fast. NOT flat. Hump-backed. My first thought was: Mite, but everything I've read says theyre really small. I can't find anything online.
All I know is I DONT WANT THEM IN THERE!