beardies with mites?!?!?!

**bellacullen** · 06-06-09 08:49 PM

my beardies have what i think are mites (ive only ever seen the red ones these are black) but what i would llike to know is what i can put in the bottom of the viv till i get rid of the mites as right now they have sand

freddy the ig had just plain kitchen roll in the bottom (he actually still has cause the mites were in his bark) but is it safe for the beardies?

i seem to have the worst luck with things like this lol

thanks for all your help in advance :)

x

**lil miss chatty** · 06-06-09 09:06 PM

kitchen roll is fine, or newspaper ect.
what are u using to treat the mite?. are u sure they are mites, it be harmless (annoying but harmless) substrate mites

**bellacullen** · 06-06-09 10:01 PM

see i don't know as i am pretty new to rep's so i can't be sure but they are tiny black things that have taken to hiding under the little creases at there mouths that what made me think it was mites

also i use mite off as i got that when freddy had mites and it worked really well

x

**paulcoyle** · 06-06-09 10:48 PM

Paper towel is good as its white and you can see them more easy on this. Mites are a parasite feeding on the blood of reptiles, though never really heard of beardies getting them more usually snakes. I would try squashing one on the paper towel in seeing if the have any blood they may have fed on. If they do its a problem as should be treated, otherwise its the substrate ones you can get with wood bark.

**thistlereptiles** · 07-06-09 08:01 AM

Kitchen paper is the best option and keep the viv as basic as possible just one thing for the beardie to climb on.

Everything else you have in the viv must be binned or steralised with boiling water etc and left out the tank until the mites are away.
You must also steralise the whole tank as much as possible.

May I ask what kind of substrate you were using ? As you normally only get bites and bugs from the dark woodbark stuff. All the others are pretty much steralised.

I would also bath your beardie every day for a little bit as mites drown in water (this will help to at least get some off)

Good luck and let us know how you get on.

Angela

**bellacullen** · 07-06-09 10:53 AM

its sand i have in the viv normally we only got them last week, freddy had mites when i got him and after the vigiorous cleaning n bathing etc they went away but as i said his were little red things these are slightly bigger and are black and because where they were hiding i just took them for mites, im gonna bath them n clean it all today n see how things go

x

**Vicky** · 07-06-09 05:07 PM

Good idea best to be safe than sorry let us know how you get on

**bellacullen** · 07-06-09 06:11 PM

well i bathed the ig first and he is totally free (Was scared they would travel to him through my contact) and he's as vicious as ever :P and then the beardies got bathed and i didn't see anything, but everythings been cleaned out etc and it seems we hve got them fast enough it thats what they were but i'll keep an eye out through the week just incase

fingers crossed!!

x

**Vicky** · 07-06-09 06:32 PM

bet your glad im so happy for you ive heard they can be a bugger to get rid off

**bellacullen** · 07-06-09 07:57 PM

ano! i hate the little blighters! when i got freddy he had them and he was my first rep ever so i didn't have a clue what they were and ive only had him about 2 months!!

just have to try and get freddy to stop biting me and it will be all good

x

**Vicky** · 07-06-09 08:08 PM

aww poor freddy at least he is all sorted now

**bellacullen** · 07-06-09 09:09 PM

what you mean poor freddy!! lol think of my poor fingers :( he was fine the first month then all of a sudden he unleashed the ninja within and started tryin to bite, whip etc he is uncontrollable!! lol

x

**paulcoyle** · 07-06-09 11:16 PM

Originally Posted by bellacullen

well i bathed the ig first and he is totally free (Was scared they would travel to him through my contact) and he's as vicious as ever :P and then the beardies got bathed and i didn't see anything, but everythings been cleaned out etc and it seems we hve got them fast enough it thats what they were but i'll keep an eye out through the week just incase

fingers crossed!!

x

Don't be so sure, stay vigilant and keep the bathing up, there will eggs that the mites have laid that will hatch and return to the host (your beardie) to feed before laying again. Keep up what you are doing and break the cycle before being certain.

**Vicky** · 08-06-09 10:13 AM

what you mean poor freddy!! lol think of my poor fingers :( he was fine the first month then all of a sudden he unleashed the ninja within and started tryin to bite, whip etc he is uncontrollable!! lol

x

LOL he is know known as Freddy The Ninja maybe he was acting like that due to the mites

**bellacullen** · 08-06-09 10:38 AM

hahaha! if that was the cause i would be fine with it but he hasn't had mites in over a month now i've been mega vigilint with it lol

someone told me it could be cause my female dog was in heat as he started getting vicious around the time she started "flaunting it" to our male dog lol

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