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SnakeLuvrs

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Here in south florida we have a problem with roaches...and i have found one in my snake's cage...i turned the light on to get it out and i glanced away to get a paper towel and it was gone... Lid still on... will the snake be ok in there until tomorrow?
 
i should also add that i am deathly afraid of these bugs... so going in there to get it out was a big step and now not knowing where it is freaking me out more.
 
Yikes, that's creepy, I'm afraid of those things too. The little ones are not so bad but I run if I see one of those big cucarachas :sidestep:
I don't think it will hurt your snake but insecticide spray can so it will have to be dealt with in a poisonless way (roach motel glue trap by the viv perhaps?)
 
I dont think your cockroach will be any trouble for your snake. They can sqeeze in and out pretty easily. It will probably be gone by the time you look again.
 
We've scheduled the orkin man through our apartment complex to spray for roaches...we were told that they use an organic spray that is not supposed to be harmful...I have contacted orkin directly to see if I can get an answer about their "organic" spray and exactly where they spray this stuff...we'll have to wait and see what they say...we may have them spray everywhere except for the room with all the snakes if the there is a problem.
 
I'd get the snakes and take them somewhere else while they are spraying to be on the safe side (make sure the roach doesn't hitch a ride with them lol)
Get the name of the product and google it if you can, I think organic might just mean it is derived from a plant rather than being a manmade chemical, but that doesn't guarantee it's safe for reptiles.
 
Unfortunatly I have a lot of experience with this problem. We live in a row home in PA and if the neighbors have them, you have them. :( We bomb our entire house every other month. I either move the snakes to another house, to the car (depending on temps) or outside (depending on temps). I also have to move our cats and the bird. It's a pain, but I don't want anyone to get sick. We wait about 3-4 hours and then come home, open windows for another hour or so and move everyone back in. Hopefully I can either move or get rid of the problem by the time mine ours are old enough to breed. Can't imagine trying to move more than what I have. BTW, even with the bombing, I still see a roach here or there. Every once in awhile I find one in the cages but it doesn't seem to bother them.
 
Maybe the bombs aren't working then. Have you tried different companies? If you see living roaches directly afterward, you should get your money back, in my opinion.

As far as the pesticide being "organic" - that doesn't mean it's not harmful. Pesticides are chemicals (organic or not) designed to kill organisms. They will use enough to kill the roaches, but not so much that they kill people. Or even make people sick. Snakes? Who knows?
 
To make a long story short, we used Terminix for years (about 7), roaches kept getting worse and worse. Finally Children & Youth & the Health dept threw us out of here for 5 days. Terminix came back in to 'bomb really good'. Didn't do much. We took over at that point. Within a month we had things under control. The neighbors, who are attached to our house (row home) are infested with them. My husband sees them on the sidewalk in the mornings before he delivers the newspapers. The whole neighborhood is infested. We see one here, one there, but that is a FAR cry from what we were seeing when we did have a company in here. According to Children and Youth & the Health Dept, as long as we keep receipts for what we are personally doing and they are under control we are not required to have a company. While we were with Terminix I wasn't allowed to do any treatment of my own or my contract would be void. Also, Terminix came into our home after this fiasco and told me that as long as I had one place where roaches could hide (they can hide in any book, video tape, panaling, ect.) that they couldn't help us. So, unless I tear my house down (they can hide in craacks in the walls behind the panaling, in floor boards under carpet, ect.) they can't help me. We are doing a far better job ourselves with getting things under control. I'm sorry for the rant, I've just been through heck this last year.
 
i spoke with the owner of the reptile shop down the street he said they spray there twice a month and as long as there is no direct contact with the snake it is fine... i dont know how comfy i am with that... I know they arent going to bomb the apartment... but they spray in corners...i think i might take the snakes out for a few hours to be safe...what do you guys think?
 
It may be safe, but taking them out for awhile is a good idea. Thats what I'd do. Although there might not be direct contact, it still gets in the air and can be breathed in. People shouldn't breath it in, so I think pets shouldn't either, right? I used to live in both Florida and Mississippi. It is nearly impossible to get rid of those buggers for more than, say a week after spraying. Ergh. They really wont hurt you, but are nasty and people tend to be allergic to there... leftovers. They are very allergenic. (Is that a word?!)
Good luck and take care!
 
thanks guys. I will also be baby sitting two cats next week so i am sure whatever bugs are around will be taken care of by the kitties
 
Not good. If a roach has been around poison, then the kitty eats it, the kitty can get really sick.
 
kimbyra said:
Not good. If a roach has been around poison, then the kitty eats it, the kitty can get really sick.
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they havent sprayed yet i dont think... and they get their house sprayed all the time and the cats ate the roach and they were fine... :shrugs: dont know how that works out
 
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