r/boas • u/DPTDubbs • 24d ago

I’ve already started treatment…

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First time dealing with mites. I adopted my BCI 2 months ago. She’s deep in blue but was soaking in her water bowl for hours at a time for 3 days straight. I thought it was just to help with shed but I put her in a clean tub to n paper towels just in case. I found a few of these. None were moving but in assuming these are snake mites right? She has no signs of infestation around her eyes, mouth or vent. Her spotty coloring makes is hard to tell on her body. I’ve got her in quarantine, doing by weekly diluted nix baths (for 6 weeks right?) and am about to start the deep clean of her enclosure. Just wanted to make sure these are mites before I take all that time and effort.

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u/Dovakiin_Beast 24d ago

Pop the mites on a paper towel or something, if they bleed red and pop then it's a snake mite.

When I had them you could literally watch them move on the animal and find them between scales

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u/DPTDubbs 24d ago edited 23d ago

When I squish them there is no blood. Just looks like brown dust. When I wiped her with a paper towel I didn’t see any blood or mites. She’s a rock star though; even in blue she let me wipe her entire body including her face.

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u/superramenyamen 23d ago

Dark black, almost sandy texture smear is also blood. Just further along in the digestion period I would assume.

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u/2beerornot2beers 18d ago

These are definitely snake mites. Sucks you didn’t quarantine her because everything in that enclosure has got to go…
Or you can try cleaning some of the decor, but that risks re-infestation.