Becca-Marie
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Whats the best safe way to remove them. Does the detergent in water really work?
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TOD contains d-phenothrin as the active ingredient which will kill your snake if used in to high a concentration in comparison to the size of your snaketop of decent spray, its air craft insecticide, that is used in customs,
wont effect your snakes at all,
Mites are living thing so yes they can be drowned and soapy water can work well. The snake would need to be put in a new enclosure/tub because and the old enclosure would need to be mite treated. It will be atleast a few weeks before you could put the snake back in the original enclosure as any mite treatment has to be done multiple times.
Alternatively, you could treat the snake and the enclosure at the same time. This is often the easiest and effective option as with soapy water you run the risk of not all the mites drowning. For this, if it is a young snake I would use permoxin. On adult snakes, especially large ones TOD is fine. One smaller snakes eg (pygmy pythons) and young snakes TOD can be toxic.
I would highly recommend people read this thread as baden (solar 17) gives good instructions on how to use it.
http://www.aussiepythons.com/forum/general-reptile-discussion-42/natural-treatment-mites-200942/
Thanks for that Mitch. Poor little thing. There really should be big warning labels on the packaging. It is very misleading for it to say safe for use on snakes when it is only safe on snakes over a certain weight/size. Becca-Marie I hope your little one is ok.
While I haven't had mites, I was lucky enough to be warned by a vet about using TOD.
I use permoxin on horses and my dogs and it is great stuff. Kills mites, ticks, fleas, etc quickly and is a cheap option.
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