Multiple species in one enclosure

[guidofatherof5]

Makes you wonder what kind of shape the rest of their stock is in.

[AntTheDestroyer]

Yeah that is one of the reason I refused to accept them sending the "right" snake. As luck would have it I found a melanistic eastern yesterday that should be coming my way soon. Don't worry I did my research this time and it is not from a huge online retailer. Uhg, I have always had a problem choosing to learn things the hard way.

[Rushthezeppelin]

Yeah that is one of the reason I refused to accept them sending the "right" snake. As luck would have it I found a melanistic eastern yesterday that should be coming my way soon. Don't worry I did my research this time and it is not from a huge online retailer. Uhg, I have always had a problem choosing to learn things the hard way.

I'm same way man, I often learn things the hard way. Live and learn.

[Zdravko092368]

Makes you wonder what kind of shape the rest of their stock is in.

I'm sure it's one of those huge companies that specializing in selling wild caught animals for $10-30, such a shame that kind of industry is allowed. Many animals suffer the consequences from that being legal.

[AntTheDestroyer]

I'm same way man, I often learn things the hard way. Live and learn.

I just hope if I have kids they are smarter than me.

I'm sure it's one of those huge companies that specializing in selling wild caught animals for $10-30, such a shame that kind of industry is allowed. Many animals suffer the consequences from that being legal.

It most definitely was. You should read all the bull they sent me in the email about the mites and how this all wasn't a big deal. It is really too bad I real liked the little guy almost enough to keep him. I hope he finds a good home.

[guidofatherof5]

I hope that radix wasn't anywhere near your other snakes. Mites are prolific, they must be attacked aggressively or they will spread for sure.

[AntTheDestroyer]

He was on the opposite side of the room on paper towels. I only saw one mite and I promptly killed him and then cleaned the crap out of the cage. Over the next few days I gave him a couple of soaks betadine. I am watching the other snakes very closely and have not seen any problems yet.

[guidofatherof5]

Provent a mite is a great produce to have on hand. You must follow the instruction to a T or the product(vapors) can be deadly to snakes.

Provent-a-Mite

[d_virginiana]

I hope they didn't spread... I've been lucky in that I've never had to deal with mites in over 15 years except some on one of my frogs once (those aren't as aggressive or hard to treat as snake mites... basically they just wash off in a couple soaks of plain water and a tank cleaning).

He was on the opposite side of the room on paper towels. I only saw one mite and I promptly killed him and then cleaned the crap out of the cage.

Okay, I just woke up, and SERIOUSLY misread this bit.

[Tommytradix]

That axanthic is incredible, good buy.

thanks im really excited to see her!

Yeah, Tommy beat me to it! Haha. I was trying to figure out where to squeeze her in. Oh well, nice pick up T.

thanks albert. I passed up scotts trio when he posted them and now im kicking myself in the butt because of it. the female he sold was het albino and dropped a small litter of 3 axanthic one normal het and a albino the albino was a stillborn but proved she was het. I tracked down all axanthics and there is not a lot out there and even fewer are breeding.
im only missing 2 radix to make my radix collection complete and that's dodge co. albinos that jeff has and steves b&w. once I get them I can die a happy herper until a new morph is found of coarse lol

The radix is alive and on his way back to Florida herps. It turned out that they sent me the wrong snake and admitted to making a mistake. Unfortunately the radix was wild collected and came with mites. I noticed the problem before it spread to my other snakes so it turned out the best it could. They offered to send me the correct snake free of charge, but at this point I had had enough and just told them to refund my money.

sorry to hear about the mites. I had mites last year from a purchase of 4 radix. one died. I used provent-a-mite as steve said and followed the directions and vacuumed twice a day and cleaned cages every day and still treat the bedding once a month. once I seen one it only took a day or 2 before I seen them on some of the others. they all got a soak in diluted betadine solution for the lil bites they had and I only seen a couple after i initially noticed them after 2 days of cleaning/soaking/treating I never seen a mite again. as steve said you have to be very aggressive cause they are aggressive. you can even transfer them to someone elses collection from your body or expos. the main thing I kept seeing when reading was that you cant kill the eggs without harming your snakes so they must hatch first and provent-a-mite lingers and kills them when they hatch its effective for up to 3 weeks I think. really great stuff even if you don't have mites as a preventative measure