Plissken
08-21-2006, 04:20 AM
I've run a search but couldn't find anything much about the visual appearance of mites... could someone help me out?
I got up this morning and noticed my new python soaking. (Yes I know this is a corn forum... but my corn is in the same room as my python so it does concern him.) While I was having a look at him I noticed a couple of little black bugs, just outside his vivarium. Were they snake mites? I'm not sure, because these bugs were sort of hopping/jumping and I'm not sure if mites just crawl. They were black and about the size of two period dots together.
Do you think my snakes may have mites? :shrugs:
If so I don't know where they came from... although my python is a new addition, I had been keeping an eye on him for almost a month before I bought him, and I went to look at him and handled him at least 3 or 4 times and I never saw any mites on him or in his bedding.
I'm hoping it's not mites as the mites I have read about have been described as tiny little things - smaller than what I saw - but I'm nervous about it nonetheless. When I get home from work I'm going to examine my python carefully for mites. So what do you think? Could there be a perfectly good reason why he's soaking, and he doesn't have mites? Could the bugs I saw just be normal insects?
I got up this morning and noticed my new python soaking. (Yes I know this is a corn forum... but my corn is in the same room as my python so it does concern him.) While I was having a look at him I noticed a couple of little black bugs, just outside his vivarium. Were they snake mites? I'm not sure, because these bugs were sort of hopping/jumping and I'm not sure if mites just crawl. They were black and about the size of two period dots together.
Do you think my snakes may have mites? :shrugs:
If so I don't know where they came from... although my python is a new addition, I had been keeping an eye on him for almost a month before I bought him, and I went to look at him and handled him at least 3 or 4 times and I never saw any mites on him or in his bedding.
I'm hoping it's not mites as the mites I have read about have been described as tiny little things - smaller than what I saw - but I'm nervous about it nonetheless. When I get home from work I'm going to examine my python carefully for mites. So what do you think? Could there be a perfectly good reason why he's soaking, and he doesn't have mites? Could the bugs I saw just be normal insects?