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Does your reptile have MITES?
02-07-2010, 03:13 PM
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My goodness it is interesting what people can find fault with. I’m glad Columbus didn’t seek advice from any of you.
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02-07-2010, 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by wade
My goodness it is interesting what people can find fault with. I’m glad Columbus didn’t seek advice from any of you.
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You shuold be the last one to talk my friend. You should take your own advice Anyone that has read my alternative diet thread will see you just made a Hippocratic statment.
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02-07-2010, 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by wade
My goodness it is interesting what people can find fault with. I’m glad Columbus didn’t seek advice from any of you.
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I agree Wade. I guess constructive criticism and politeness only apply to those people we are familiar with??
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02-07-2010, 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by nemrak551
The powder consists of nothing but very finely crushed earth. You use it in your pools to soften your water, and you swim in it when you take a dip in your pool. The powder is not a chemical either, it works better then seven dust and doesn't have any pesticides in it whatsoever.
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Diatomaceous earth? I use it for pest control too, but I'd hope you are using food grade rather than swimming pool grade. The food grade powder is perfectly safe, it's actually mixed into stored grain to kill weevils etc, but the swimming pool grade is not safe for ingestion at all. It works by dessicating the insects, making tiny cuts in the cuticle of the mite or insect's exoskeleton. I've not heard of it being used in a solution before, in fact if you use it around your plants outside you have to reapply it after rain.
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02-07-2010, 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by diamondlil
Diatomaceous earth? I use it for pest control too, but I'd hope you are using food grade rather than swimming pool grade. The food grade powder is perfectly safe, it's actually mixed into stored grain to kill weevils etc, but the swimming pool grade is not safe for ingestion at all. It works by dessicating the insects, making tiny cuts in the cuticle of the mite or insect's exoskeleton. I've not heard of it being used in a solution before, in fact if you use it around your plants outside you have to reapply it after rain.
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Diatomaceous earth I use it to prevent roches from entering my home. It is not harmful to ingest but harmful for a herp to breath it in, it will scar up the lungs. Now clay cat litter wont harm any part of a Reptile and will do the same thing that is what mite end is made of
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02-07-2010, 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Vinman
Diatomaceous earth I use it to prevent roches from entering my home. It is not harmful to ingest but harmful for a herp to breath it in, it will scar up the lungs. Now clay cat litter wont harm any part of a Reptile and will do the same thing that is what mite end is made of
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Yep, I use it instead of spraying to stop fleas from my cats, after they had a skin reaction to the spray.
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02-07-2010, 03:32 PM
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Janine have you ever used front line. I dont know if they sell it in UK but it is great and last for a while
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02-07-2010, 03:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Vinman
Janine have you ever used front line. I dont know if they sell it in UK but it is great and last for a while
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That's what the cats reacted to. I still use the drops on the dog, but the cats had to go chemical free. Great fun, they turn into a blinding ball of furious clawing action.
I know herpers here recommend dilute frontline wiped on reptiles and sprayed in vivs for mites.
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02-07-2010, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Vinman
You shuold be the last one to talk my friend. You should take your own advice Anyone that has read my alternative diet thread will see you just made a Hippocratic statment.
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Sweetheart, I didn't say that I agree with everything everyone has to say, as you well know. I think many people here are going to the extreme trying to come up with ways that iodine, Dawn liquid soap, and Diatomaceous earth will wipe out man kind.
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02-07-2010, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by wade
Sweetheart, I didn't say that I agree with everything everyone has to say, as you well know. I think many people here are going to the extreme trying to come up with ways that iodine, Dawn liquid soap, and Diatomaceous earth will wipe out man kind.
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#1 sweetheart dont apply to me being I a guy unless you like men, I dont, I'm strait. #2 no one said iodine, Dawn liquid soap, and Diatomaceous earth will wipe out man kind. I have no idea where you got that from, did we all not read a post that only you can see? All we are saying that there are better ways to kill mites with proven methods that work instead of buying homemade mojo. I know you know better than that , as you know you are not a stupid person
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