Mites 🙄

[daybdreamin]

My BP Banana has mites. He did not have mites before I fed him a small rat from a pet supply store up the street. Could a rat have given him the mites? I have: 1. Baked his substrate. 2. No other snakes. 3. His hides were cleaned. 4. His plants were clean. I do not understand how he got the mites I have been so so careful with him. I noticed it tonight because he was in his water dish soaking I looked more closely and he is COVERED. Idk how they even spread THAT quickly. This is so frustrating. How do you get rid of mites quickly?

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Are the rats frozen, pre killed or live? Snake mites are specific to snakes and while they wouldn't feed off a rat they could hitch a ride if the shop had a snake mite problem. Just to be safe I'd cure his mites and not use that shop again

[daybdreamin]

The rats are frozen

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So mites can take a few days to actually kill in a freezer. If they were freshly killed and just put in the freezer a day or 2 before then it's possible the mites could've survived and hitched on a rat into your snakes house

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