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dragon mites?

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ok. so im not embarrassed to say. im actually relieved kind of. but some how my bearded dragons got mites and that was why my female wasnt eating. they hide very well on them. and now i have the problem pretty much taken care of i think. even though im still taking precautions and bathing them daily and still have them on paper insted of aspen. and i baked everything of theirs that needed it. used up 2 cans of prevent a mite and nix treated the cages. so far for last 3 days not mites found again. so next week they might go back on aspen. and yes my female is eating like a cow again. yay.

now what i have a question about after that. dragons to have mites is somewhat rare i guess, and snake mites will infest dragons i have read in a book. but none of my snakes have mites even though i treated every animal in my collection for them right now and cleaned every cage. i even swept and mopped my whole basement. so how could my dragons happen to have mites but no snake have them? this is confusing me. anyone know if theirs a mite that is only in lizards? if so im trying to figure where they came from. thanks for any input.

oh and if your dragons ever go on not eating, i suggest checking in the flaps near their beards very well, and their upper eye lids. it took me a week to figure this out. they are very good at hiding on them.
 
From what I have read, in the book Understanding Reptile Parasites, while snake mites can live on other animals, inlcuding humans, they can't complete the reproductive cycle. Are you sure they were snake mites? I'll read more about lizard mites when I get home.
 
they have been outside before. but not recently. i just moved here and didnt know if the previous house owners have their yard treated. and the neighbors both do. so they havent. i dont know that they were snake mites. but they were deffinately mites of some sort.
 
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