White spots on Bluey ?

[richoman_3]

well not long ago i was given a bluey and looked really skinny then in 3 days it had white spots all over it, i gave it away as i couldnt find a disease that caused white spots, and the other day my bluey died and it had white spots, can someone please tell me what it is ?


cheers Nick

 

[Mr.James]

What kind of bluetongue? & Photo's would help to find the problem. Sorry to hear the bad news..

 

[richoman_3]

im sorry my sis accidently deleted all my photos, well they were little white spots bout 1mm all over it, they were both eastern

 

[GeckoJosh]

Were they like mites or ticks or were the spots part of the skin pigment?

 

[richoman_3]

part of it ... they just appeared over a week

 

[GeckoJosh]

How long were the spots there before it died?

 

[richoman_3]

maybe a week i gave the first one away though and i tried to treat the 2nd

 

[GeckoJosh]

What did u do to treat it?

 

[richoman_3]

well not really treat but tried everything i could to help it

 

[aprice]

Bad case of mites.

 

[richoman_3]

Bad case of mites.

but they didnt move, or arnt they supposed to lol

 

[-Andrew-]

Sounds like mites, as the white spots are usually the mite poo after
feeding on the host (this case the bluetongue)

 

[thesilverbeast]

Bad case of mites.

I already asked, the scales weren't raised apparently and it looked like where the pigment it, just white spots.

 

[richoman_3]

ok ( eww mite poo ) but i didnt see any mites on him ever

 

[-Andrew-]

Depending on the size of the bluey their scales are quite large & the mites will hide really well & usually only come out at night or when the animal is not being disturbed.
As frustrating and annoying mites are they are incredible litte survivors.

 

[richoman_3]

damn mites, he was bout 25cm and the smaller one was like 18cm and i never saw a mite

 

[-Andrew-]

Yep that's big enough to not see a mite and be able to hide a few hundred undetected
in the scales.

 

[richoman_3]

man thats heaps, thanks for the info mate, is there a cream or something like that to cure mites

 

[thesilverbeast]

yeah theres a spray you can use. buy it anyway and spray the enclosure if you plan on using it again.

 

[-Andrew-]

There is a few ways of treating them as there is the mite spray known as top of descent which is used in aircrafts for the control of such parasites but just make sure you use this carefully as too much can harm the lizard.
Safer methods can be just letting your lizard soak in water and clean lizard off with the mites drowning but this will never get rid of them altogether & there is always vegetable oil which you could wipe over the lizard to suffocate the mites but all these treatments will have to be regularly treated for a while as the eggs etc. will usually be unaffected by the above mentioned methods.