snitz427
Chameleon Enthusiast
I've inherited an awesome small snail colony that is intended for breeding/feeding my chams. I noticed last night that one snail has mites and he seemed particularly annoyed by them. I'm sure the others have or will soon have them, as well. I will be cleaning out their container and bathing them at some point this week, but I doubt that will 100% irradicate the mites, so I am considering adding predatory mites to the enclosure. The predatory mites will eat the other mites that harass the snails, but they don't prey on the snails themselves. I don't want to run into an issue where mites end up in my other feeder colonies... so I've contemplated just adding mites to the snails and separating the eggs for cleaning / hatching. They are clearly bothering the snail, otherwise I'd probably ignore them as I plan to hatch the baby snails in another (sterile) container.
Just wondering if anyone has experience with them? If you are in the US, where did you find them? Everywhere I've found so far is either very expensive or includes far more than I need. Anyone have tips/techniques for managing mites in general? I don't have them in my other colonies but I am paranoid about having them pop up in my isopod colonies.
Just wondering if anyone has experience with them? If you are in the US, where did you find them? Everywhere I've found so far is either very expensive or includes far more than I need. Anyone have tips/techniques for managing mites in general? I don't have them in my other colonies but I am paranoid about having them pop up in my isopod colonies.