Get Rid of Snake Mites Fast | Easy Treatment
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- Finding Mites on your animals is a brutal awakening. But it doesn't have to be as stressful as you might think. This week we breakdown the easy and safe way to get rid of snake mites.
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I was lucky enough to have caught the mites like the day they started
that is lucky!
Those snakes can be so happy to have ended up at your place and I hope the seller gets punished. Also ... hi Irwin
I’ve been looking to get a snake and your channel has really been helping thank you so much!
I’m dealing with mites right now this seems like one of the best methods out there! Clean and simple, luckily saw them in time and got my house sprayed down and now a week into the treatment. Thank you for putting this out there I hope the snakes you got are now happily breeding and the lady back up to proper weight :)
I love my merauke blue tongue skink! They are awesome! I’m so sorry your new snakes have mites, that absolutely sucks, but I’m glad they are with you and they’ll be taken care of now
Thanks for having this video out there knew of this way and herd a few people say all the stuff u got in the one video great place to send people when I’m trying to explain and educate on getting rid of mites keep up the great videos :)!!!
I bought a rack system from a breeder and now two of my snakes, and probably three have mites. I just found out last night and I've been doing so much research. I'm gonna try this.
How’d it go?
Howd it go?
Thank you so much!
Thnx bro ! Awesome advice n terrific 🎥 video:)
My pleasure 😊
poor snake thank God there is great a guy like you
Holy shit this helped me so much! You the man!
thanks for watching and good luck!
First, I'm very sorry you have to deal with this... but its probably a good thing you have them now.
Second, I recieved 3 hognose BABIES from a breeder with mites... never having dealt with them before. I researched like crazy and was worried about the nix on babies. I found a NERD video and a snake discovery video both saying dawn original dish soap would drown the mites(one recommended days worth of soaking which I wasnt comfortable with).
I ended up taking the container they came in, and putting just enough warm water to cover their bodies with a drop of the dawn dish soap every few nights. After a little over a week they were gone completely... I did continue for 3 weeks just to be sure the eggs were hatched and dead. It worked really well, and they just kept their little heads up out of the water. It creates a resistant surface that drowns the mite... I was really impressed (dawn is that soap that they advertise for removing oil from wildlife such as ducks etc..)
Inexpensive, safe, and worked like a dream. I also soaked the enclosures, and kept them quarantined.
Did they soak 24 hours a day for 3 weeks ?
@@sandyelliott3350 no, in the video the other person soaked them for several days. Mine I gave them 20 minutes, every few days.
@@kirstennicole1996 thanks. I was worried about how they were going to keep their little heads above water that long. And scale rot from being wet for so long.
@@sandyelliott3350 me too. But NERD is a great channel for info.
@@kirstennicole1996 yes. I love listening to Kevin.
I once heard a kid in my class say the only way to get rid of mites on a snake is to burn the snake😑 so thank you for educating people on this
My baby has them. I saw one. That is enough confirmation for me.
Been watching your channel for a few months now...just got a shipment in of 3 ball pythons. One was fine, second has scale rot, and the third has scale rot, respiratory infection AND infested with mites! Never had mites in all the years of breeding ball pythons. WHY do people do this to others!? It’s not fair!! Thank you for the info, she is in quarantine with coconut oil paper towel and mite killing spray i got from the pet store. Fingers crossed.
Interesting take on the Keeled scaled snakes being resistant to mites, I have experienced this as well but I’m wondering if you have any other data to back this up? I’m very interested in looking into why this is.
I have a lot of Rattlesnakes and boas, I had a mite infestation that affected all of the boas but not a single mite was found on my rattlesnakes or in their enclosures… I’m trying to figure out why…
Havent tried coconut oil yet! Sounds like a great idea. Went to fed my year old female candino a left over pup that I had.. she had two showing on her. Unsure how they got there. Do you know if they can come in the bedding you would buy from a store?
Aww:) yay awesome video my guy. Lol.
Glad you enjoyed
Hi, How long do you leave the coconut oil on? Worried incase it hardens up 😔
Great video! Important info for sure!
I have the fun of mites now for the 1st time ever. 😢
Irresponsible "breeders" piss me off.
I have a spray called hot shot it has permethrin. 5 and the other one has permethrin .15 and tetramethrin .15 are those safe to use
My friend sold me her first snake she got and about less than a week later I noticed it had mites. And we were just about to move so I wasn’t able to treat the snake plus I had no idea what to do not we’re at our new house I had my other snake out and now they both have mites.
My question what do you do for the tanks I’m taking all the bedding out and getting new bedding but do you just spray it with the same solution with the nix?
And what do you use for your cleaning solution for the tanks normally ?
I just bought a defensive children’s python around a foot long from a reptile expo in New York. I inspected the snake on two separate occasions while there and didn’t notice until I was almost got home. Now I’m trying to combat the mites. I’m so nervous they will somehow infect my bioactive gecko/skink terrariums. I’m gonna attempt the coconut oil but, this little children’s python is super defensive I’ll most likely get bit a few times.
So I just have to mix the coco oil with sim water then rub it on my snake every day for a few weeks? But before I should disinfect the thb
I have a stimpsons python and it has little brown specks on him but I don’t know if that’s just patches of pigment
Hi I’m looking for any reply, I know this is a old video but yeah, I’m dealing with them well in my crested geckos tank I saw little black bugs in his water and cleaned it with dish soap and scrubbed it clean after then they kept coming back so I kept doing that and they went, a few weeks later I got my ball python and I noticed she had them and her tank was brand new cleaned and yeah I put her in some warm water and got the mites of well at least what I could see. I’m not sure what to do thank you for this video but is they anything that I could to to help now. Thanks :)
Is this method safe for small snakes? I have a year old Leucistic rat snake and corn snake -I have not seen any on the rat snake and he's the recent addition. The corn snake I've had for over a year but today he's been in and out the water dish and I see small black dots but I'm not positive it is mites. I don't see any movement and I have no idea how he could of gotten them other than the new rat snake which I've seen none on and he's in a separate room. I know this is an old video but I'm desperately searching for a safe way to treat him.
I'm dealing with mites right now I wanna try the coconut oil should I put it over the snakes head and eyes aswell as the body
how long did it take to get this taken care of?
Question:
Can I use the coconut oil treatment while my python is in shed? She in the beginning stage of shed
Hi I have a wooden cage for my snake so what do I do now
My poor new baby corn snake has mites and I am really upset . Thank you for your video
I feel your pain bro I was vending a expo in my state of MI, and I bought another ball python. I didn't know the vender but he had a big nice setup lots of diversity, so I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I got a 900gm female fire single gene k, and usually I got a probe kit at my table but forgot it that day and not a master of popping. ok so I got her home put her into quarantine she was a he he had a RI, and he had mites. so pissed cant reach him I did report it to the expo manager. sorry long story I'm getting mad talking about it, so hopefully it works good for you and congrats on your skink.
Reptiles & Rodents brutal eh!? I’ll never understand these jerks who do this to animals and rip people off. Hope all is well with your new snake now.
Adam, I use Sevin dust... Have been using it for years... Just sprinkle a bit on top of bedding and voila! No mites ever! I kept infecting my collection using the aspen bedding from my local Fleet Farm... now I sprinkle the Sevin dust on every time I do a bedding change or add any new bedding and have not had any problems in over a year... This even takes care of a new snake with an infestation... First I used Natural Chemistry Reptile Relief Spray to kill all current mites on snake.... spraying this on my hand and wiping down much like you did with coconut oil, and then treat bedding with Sevin dust.... mites were gone immediately... no 2 weeks of treatments.... check it out!
Hello! I know it’s been a while since you posted this comment but could you explain? Do you use the dust powder? I would really like to try this. Thank you in advance!
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I did the coconut oil and got it in my sand boas eyes. I dabbed the eyes with q tips to get the oil out. Will his eyes be ok??
just discovered mites on one of my boa i really dont know how it could have happened but here they are .... i watched my other snakes they dont seems infected.. my infected snake was in one of my rack ... im really stressin out could i have been lucky and they didnt infected my other snakes ?
I got mites for the first time in my 20-ish years of keeping as a hobby and i don't even know how. I haven't gotten a new snake in years. I've been using the provent a mite method, but im still getting a couple mites per change of bedding, and it's probably because i cant physically reach the back of the racks to clean them. I'm not talking about the outside of it. My arms are too short to reach the back on the inside. Any suggestions on a tool for this?
I need to do this with my snake, starting tomorrow, do I put the oil on its head and face?
Great info and best mite video I seen by far yet but be careful never believe people not saying all are bad but I’ve learned in this biz the good have to suffer
thanks for watching, hope it helped
i need help. I’m getting a bp from someone who had wood mites in there home. Does it mean it’s in him
Is there a skink tank set up video?
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Just got my first (pastel) ball python, first time snake owner, and got the snake home and saw a bug and now im here in the rabbit hole trying to see what to do to get rid of these mites. I feel bad but we have only seen like 7 of them but thats alot more then he should have.
I’m going to try this, my snake is infested with mites and I’ve been using reptile mite spray and a lot seemed to come off but there still seems to be a ton. Hope this method works
Did it work for you
I use 1 bottle of Nix, to 1 whole gallon of distilled water. I feel ½ gallon is a bit too potent :/ obviously do what works for you, but 1:1 works well for me
Like a potato!!! 😊😊 I love you so much
Also i take a yellow hotshot thing for bugs it comes with a white plastic thing and the pad with bug stuff ... Its a yellow thing. I cut into small pieces and put a piece in each cage and leave it it will help keep away also i put pieces around my rack on outside too and i leave them there.i think you change it every 4 months but its just for precautions..... I learned from guy i bought my retic from he does it at shows too samson Pruitt. Slither Inc.
But treat every cagewith pemectrin and water garrett hartles video mix with water and cut them hot shot pads up and leave small pieces in just for precautions
yes that's a great way to do it
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Bout to try this! I bought 2 red tail boas for cheap off craigslist....MITES. And the boas are so freckled it's impossible to see the mites. I have them in tubs with paper towels til I get some coconut oil...and dawn too to have on hand. I have the snakes in the basement with a heater. Can the mites travel far? I have other reptiles across the room. No other place for them...
Good luck! They can travel a bit, keep the mites away from your collection!
Surround the tubs with some kind of fly paper or sticky t ape this will stop them from traveling to your other snake's also make sure they don't get your hands and clothes.they say olive oil also works.
I haven’t ever seen mites on my snakes until today. Idk where they came from because I haven’t gotten anything new. I can’t imagine I’ve just missed them up until now. There’s no way. I’m guess the substrate from the serpentarium. It has to be
These are by far the most annoying thing to deal with ever.
I wish they warn you about this I’m going on 2 months of having mites.
I’ve cleaned it so many different times
What does f/10 mean
I dont have a snake, but I watched this entire video at 3:21 AM.
you're awesome!
Just picked up a male fore today for 90 bucks he's at 1000 grams no respiratory infection but deaf had mites. Cleaned out the full quarantine enclosure put his water dish and hide in a zip lock bag in the freezer and washed the snake off in about an inch of water with a tad bit of dawn diahsoap to wash them off and wash and kill the mites. Laid down paper towels as well gave him a good look over and haven't seen any mites in the last 2 hours after his bath. Hopefully the dawn dish soap bath worked. But yes always always always quarantine all new reptiles. Something so small could ruin your whole collection
good luck! man mites are a pain
@@WickensWickedReptiles he'll yet they are i gave that coconut oil a try last night I think it deff helped
I wonder how many people have mites and don’t know it
I have a bin with dubia’s that has a flour mite infestation and I only know because they live in a black bin making the mites visible to the naked eye
These annoying animals are just a tiny bit larger than dust mites and look like walking dust they also don’t live on the dubia’s making spotting them even harder
I’m now drying out and periodically cooling down the dubia bin to make them leave but it will probably take a while to get them all out
Got a milk snake years ago that came with mites and they exploded in population while I was on vacation shortly after. I ended up treating the mites with... mites. Several predatory mite species eat reptile mites, if you have a natural substrate they will go absolutely ham on the reptile mites of all stages - egg, juvie, and adult forms. Once there are no more reptile mites they simply die off.
Where can I get some? And do they have to be a certain species?
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thanks
I've used diatomaceous earth to treat Snake Mites recently with good results.
How'd you do it? I'm currently dealing with this
interesting, I'll read about it
What’s the verdict on your research?
@@kdexotics3646 it's been quite good results but generally only in dry conditions. Diatomatious Earth is rather like chalk and tends to clump together if damp.
@@kaylanicole6080 it's a very fine chalk like powder that dehydrates mites. It doesn't work as well in damp conditions as it tends to clump together and become less effective.
I want to get a snake so badly but I feel like I would struggle with getting rid of mites, for me it’s a lot to absorb at once
I just got my norm 2 days ago ( im new to snakes) and im just doin alot of searching for everything i need to know, this was my main worry, but can someone tell me how they get them and how to prevent my baby from getting mites to begin with?
don't bring an infected animal around and you'll be fine
@@WickensWickedReptiles I’ve been seeing a TON of people saying lately that they acquired mites from snake substrate that they bought. How can you even avoid it if that’s the case?
dude i just got four bp's from someone in my area and dude he wanted to get the deal done as fast as possible now im stuck with 4 poor snakes who look like theyve been starving for a year as well and are infested with mites! its awful i have a huge frilled dragons collection that i am now mortified that my collection will get infested
quarantine man, this is the reason why. Good luck getting them back to health!
Skinks get mites. Came here to see how to handle the infestation my Indonesian is currently plagued with.
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hey hey
What is F10?
a Vet grade cleaning product
I am trying to treat my boa 😔 my python I check every day and my corn snake to they seem to be Cleer so far
wicked
I dont know what happend but it looks bad so far she has been treated already two days ago and she stil has a lot I removed everything out of tera except for the kurk plates I can't remove it your video helped also I am going to try to coco thing 😅
they sound like fleas on a cat, my cat had fleas i just made her weim in a tub full of warm water fleas drowned she wa very happy. Luckily i have water snake so they will go swimming for iver an hour
can they jump ? or flip ?
snakes? not very well, that's why you never see them on basketball courts, super bad vertical jump :P
THE mites........
Are all mites the same?
like if my anoles have small brown mutes, can ut spread to snakes?
I hate myself, my pied ball got TONS of mites and I have no idea why, could it be the from the substrate? Anyways, I have other 8 snakes. I'm treating them all with provent a mite and baths. I'm confident that I will kill the bastards.
How do they get mites besides from other reptiles?
Substrate, decorations, clothing, tubs, basically anything can carry mites and their eggs
@@WickensWickedReptiles could taking them outside also be a cause? That and just switching to pvc and trying to get my humidity down were the only two differences that I've had between no mites to some mites in the past month.
I just picked up my beautiful ball python and seen he was infested with them I took him into the bath tub filled it with warm water and started bathing him then I ran warm water all over him to rinse him of them I sent my husband to get the mites spray had him take everything out of the tank washed it really good and all the stuff also spray it with the stuff and put white paper towels down I’ll be checking him and the other 4 I also had to bathe and wash my little baby one and did the same I’ll be keeping a close eye on them all for the next week and keep bathing them all and spray the stuff that is made for snakes to put on them to kill the nasty little mites. I was so angry when I seen they were all over my beautiful Enchi and black eyed Lucy well hopefully I can get them all out and kill all the nasty little bugs. They were very clean before I knew it was probably on the mouse or the rats that they had from the pet store because they were clean and didn’t have them before it . I’m seriously considering getting frozen rats or mice for them to eliminate any future incidence . I know they were probably happy I bathed them and a little scared but they knew I would not hurt them and they seemed ok and actually didn’t mind the warm water bath for a while. Now they are resting with the clean tanks and white paper towels and I’ll keep checking and washing and spraying the special spray just for them I’ll put the spray my hands and then run it though the body avoiding the head and eyes so they are safe but thank for the coconut oil I’m going to get more of it and start putting it on the for future reference and it’s more natural and not harmful so yes definitely thanks for the video and explaining everything people need to know about it . I’m also glad you got the two beautiful python and I think and know they are very happy and healthy with you having them and taking care of them. Thanks for the awesome video tips and all else. Love and light snakes are beautiful creatures ❤️🐍❤️
When I got my first snake, I got him from a pet store and I got everything else for him from another pet store. Somewhere from either one of those places he got mites. I had never had a snake before, so I didn't immediately recognize that he had mites, and then I had to go on a week stay with my grandparents for personal reasons, and I left my mom to take care of him. She has never had a snake, but she helped my sister take care of her 4 snakes. When I came back, the tank was infestee, and he had almost his whole body was covered in mites. His head was completely covered except for his mouth, and there was a pinkie in the cage from I'm guessing the meal he just had while I was away and he had thrown it up. Since I wasn't there I am not entirely sure why he regurgitated it, but I can guess its because he was under so much stress and his whole body was covered in mites. My dad told me to put him in olive oil. I said hell no. I still don't know if that's a good idea or not, but I won't try it if there are better methods. I woke up the next day with a dead snake.
You were only gone for just 1 week, and in that time your snake got so infested with mites that he was completely covered??? And his head entirely covered as well? In one week?
Funny when you said they are similar to head lice did you know you can use mayo to kill lice in your head. It also helps to get nits out of the hair. I always use mayo on kids now instead of the chemicals you buy at the store.
A year later, no one replied. So wanted to bump. I was trying to help a family get rid of lice. Went thru atleast $300 in poisons, shampoos. All the name brand stuff. Even doc prescribed. They would be gone, then come back worse, then worse. Putting Mayo on the head for a day with a shower cap killed everything. One gallon jar of Mayo did the trick after having almost a year of struggle.
@@thepain321 super lice are resistant to typical lice treatments and treatments won’t help at all. Only way to get rid of super lice is to use oils/mayo, and ALOT of patience with a nit comb to comb them all out by hand. And super lice seem to be becoming much more prevalent all over the US these days
Just got a hog island boa and just saw mites crawling on her so sad got her 2 days ago :(
brutal!
@@WickensWickedReptiles I know dude I've messed the lad I brought her of.. Pain in the arse mate luckily my sister uses virgin coconut oil all the time so we had some! Also put olive oil on a bit of kitchen tissue and wipe the snake down its body, adlnd a good few of them came of on the tissue.
Is there an easy way of getting to the head and under the chin area? Or do you recon I'm just gonna have to brave it and take a bite? I don't mind doing that as long as she's gonna be okay
@@WickensWickedReptiles Can I just say.... THANKYOU for letting me know about the virgin coconut oil.... Works wonders wish I found out about it earlier! Applied some to my boa Buttercup and the next morning I see 5/6 little black spots on the tissue paper. I cant thank you enough I was so worried
I bought 2 snakes for 100 each same thing covered in mites I'm so pissed off
Would this work for hognoses too?
I did a follow up to this and discuss Hognose more. Check it out. I wouldn’t use prevent a mite or nix for a Hognose
Wickens Wicked Reptiles I would love to but I can’t seem to find it
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Just found mites on my dragons ffs
What happened to soaking in water or putting seven in a bag then tossing the snake in. How about heating you cage to 140 f for 30 mins.Ijust want to get mites out of the pits on my tree boas faces.
not sure if serious
Over years she'll no pest Strips, mineral oil ,seven,ivermctin,5 different pyrethrin combos,now fiprinil,I guess I'll keep soaking in a 5gallon bucket.
My baby got lice; time to throw it in the oven!
Ur joking right? Like u couldn’t possibly be serious.
"And what I got was two snakes and thousands of mites" I guess something had to bring down the price. But no exactly like you said, some people do not deserve to have animals if they neglect them like this. At least they're at a good home now!
Couple weeks and everyday is not fast
I itch.
(Yes, I know people don't get them)
hahaha
I bought some snakes from very very reputable breeders and guess what , whether shipping gave them to them ( doubt it) they had mites not terribly infested , but Nix was the best way to treat them diluted Nix and poof gone after 2 treatment gone in 3 days never again will I get something without a real prevent and treat before entering my collection, It’s definitely the best way man Nix dilute , I keep only nix in my snake room now and spray once around my room a month , and snake can be sprayed directly in the face with diluted Nix even juveniles, none of my snakes were effected in any way being sprayed in the Nix dilute, Never has a snake been hurt or toxic syndrome from Nix diluted sprayed directly on them , I treated 65 snakes directly from 2 week to 12 year old snakes nobody was hurt and I dowsed them and paper toweled them off
how long did you leave the nix spray on them before rinsing it off?
@@kjohnson8483 I didn’t rinse it off , I used the diluted mix and sprayed them and held them til dry , one good spray from a foot or so away to the face also , I sort of sprayed in the air and let it rain down on them while holding and for the really small ones we actually sprayed it all over our hands and then rubbed it all over the snakes , I am a firm believer in quarantined animals from a collection of a minimum of 2 weeks , or two weeks without any issues at all before they get to go to my snake room , I’ve saved my butt several times already as far as mites etc , just be persistent and thorough with it
Blows my mind that people don't treat the mites on their snakes and just sell them. Not difficult to treat at all
it's brutal, people are insane
Awww man that sucks what a douche bag for giving you snakes with mites, but they are pretty tho. I've never had mites thank goodness
Should I just trow the snake in the oven for 30 minutes , that should do it right ?
Not true dude mites can cross to humans called scabbies on humans
not the same type of mites
There’s thousands and thousands of different kinds of parasitic mites. And scabbies mites is NOT the same thing as snake mites. Not even close.