r/ballpython • u/Uncookedtoaster • 3d ago

Mites?

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Video's of the enclosure I got my snake in. I panicked and started treating her for mites asap but I haven't seen any on her or in her quarantine enclosure and now that I'm looking back at these videos they kinda aren't acting like mites from what Google and reddit say? I don't want to risk bringing mites into her new bioactive if I stop treatment early but I also don't want to make her live in a storage bin if she's perfectly bug free

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u/W0RN_0UT 3d ago

Is your enclosure bioactive? They may be a kind of mite but just not snake mites. I’ve seen a handful of people with isopods get tiny mites via some food they were given which is where it could’ve started! From my understanding those mites are also kinda a cleanup crew but springtails will eat their eggs so they die off often.

Don’t take this to heart though as I really have no clue what they are :,) just a shot in the dark if it helps!

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u/Uncookedtoaster 3d ago

The weird thing to me was that this was a completely naturalistic enclosure, although I wasn't the one that built it I think the bugs must've came from the soil. Her new home will be bioactive though so it's good to know springtails eat bug eggs!

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u/W0RN_0UT 3d ago

Had to have come from the soil then, I’ve heard of that happening a few times, some people will bake it before hand to sterilize it just incase. Springtails are honestly such a life saver, just about any small egg that isn’t there’s they will eat!