Are These MITES??

[Aundrea]

Thank you guys sooooo much!!! I hope its not scale rot. It these little back thingys in his scales. UGH. Poor guy. Where do i get bacitracin at?

[infernalis]

The pharmacy section of any store...

Who is that Aundrea??

Keep away from other snakies until we know what you are dealing with.

[Snake lover 3-25]

The pharmacy section of any store...

Who is that Aundrea??

Keep away from other snakies until we know what you are dealing with.

lol look at x-mas present thread lol

[Garter_Gertie]

Drug store. It's just an antispetic. It's the stuff they 'paint' you with - that's orange? - before they do surgery, or maybe stitch up a cut finger or something.

[GartersRock]

If it's mites all the other snakes in that tank will have it too.

[infernalis]

I just saw the other thread...

Treat them all Aundrea

[adamanteus]

There appears to be some dorsal 'spotting' on the picture in your other thread (unless it's just dirt). This might indicate scale rot.

[Snake lover 3-25]

o lol missed that lol

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

I am going to go ahead and say yes.. those are mites. I found out that is their favorite place to hide on a snake when I had them. Every snake that had mites had them in that fold of skin under their chin.

Aundrea, take out your snake, gently but firlmy grip his head and use your fingernail to move that flap of skin under his chin and look for small black dots. If you see small black dots... these are mites. Usually you can take your fingernail and gently scrape at the and you will see them move or fall off. Also look in around his eyeball.. that is their other favorite place to hide.
I dealt with many a mites at one point and that definitely looks like them using their favorite hiding place!!!

[Hornets23]

I thought my snake had mites...but when i actually look on her, I dont see any. The reason I thought she had them was becuase there was this little white speck moving in her water bowl..which is black. Are all mites black? Maybe I just need to look harder for the mites but i figured they would be fairly easy to see if they are there. It is a dark snake though...Does anyone have any opinions on this?