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13-May-08, 12:30 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-08 Location: Surfers Paradise Gender:  | | |  Where do the ticks come from?
Just thought that i would share with all you my disbelief  that somehow my Port Mac has managed to get herself about half a dozen tick on herself. Im not too worried about the ticks as I have gotten 4 out so far (2 tricky one to go), but more so how she has gotten them. The only possible thing I can think of is that I broke her branch 2 weeks ago when repositioning it in her enclosure and that they have come out of there. I have had the branch for over 8 months and never had a tick or mite problem. And also I live in a high rise building so getting them from the environment in very unlikely. Anybody with suggestions?
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13-May-08, 01:01 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-08 Location: Sydney Age/Gender: 25  | | | | What do you feed her.....maybe got in with the food
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13-May-08, 01:15 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-08 Location: Surfers Paradise Gender: | | | | She has only ever eaten lab rats from the pet shop.
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13-May-08, 05:11 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-08 Location: Sydney Age/Gender: 25 | | | Are you feeding frozen or do you freshly kill your rats??
If you are fresh killing, i'd bet they have come with the rat from the pet shop
My other half had mites get into his spiders tank a few years back, unfortunately she died because of these ( best news ever i thought, lol..... this thing was creepy )
We were told they most likely came from her food, we were feeding this thing live pinkie mice at the time
Good luck with it 
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13-May-08, 05:13 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Darwin NT Age/Gender: 23 | | | | Are you sure they are ticks and not mites?
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13-May-08, 05:25 PM
|  | LEHOOO ZE HURRRR ^_^ Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: herpin on the gold coast ;D Gender: | | | well, when a mummy tick and a daddy tick...
sorry couldnt resist 
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13-May-08, 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by herpsrule  well, when a mummy tick and a daddy tick...
sorry couldnt resist
Nat | Don't listen to him, there is a tick stork 
Seriously, geckos are a possible source. And they like high rises | |
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