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Post by sezzy5889 on Sept 15, 2005 15:12:29 GMT
I seem to have a bad mite problem, when my snails come out at night all they seem to do is rasp away at the inside and outside of their shells, they are really irritated by them and they can't move around properly without stopping and rasping and then they retract really far back and won't come back out for the rest of the night. It has effected my fulica, smithii, iradelei and dimidiata, what can i do to eliminate them, i can't watch this happen another night  help! Corrected Latin name for search purposes - paul |
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Post by Paul on Sept 15, 2005 15:14:33 GMT
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Post by sezzy5889 on Sept 15, 2005 15:15:47 GMT
where can i get them from?
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Post by Paul on Sept 15, 2005 15:23:06 GMT
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Post by Paul on Sept 15, 2005 15:29:28 GMT
I just wanted to say that the mites are not cheap and you get 10000. I'd make sure the problem you have is mites. If so, I'd share the cost and mites with others on here who may need them.
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Post by sezzy5889 on Sept 15, 2005 15:36:08 GMT
I can see the mites in the tank, their on everything, little white things about 1mm
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Post by Paul on Sept 15, 2005 15:52:50 GMT
I found bathing the snails and cleaning everything helped a lot although my problem wasn't that bad to be honest. I just got the fear that they were a dangerous type (don't worry, 6 of these on a snail can cause problems, so if you have lots of mites they'll just be the bog standard type).
If your snails are suffering try that as soon as you can. You may find you have to knock the mites off with a jet of water from your spray bottle. Also, you need moving water, like the shower, the mites can swim, and will try to get back onto the snail.
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Post by sezzy5889 on Sept 15, 2005 16:01:49 GMT
ok will do :-)
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Post by sezzy5889 on Sept 15, 2005 16:02:07 GMT
There the types you find on garden snails
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Annelie
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Post by Annelie on Sept 15, 2005 16:58:24 GMT
My snails got mites to! Found some of them yesterday. Sooo disgusting!  So now it's bathingtime for the snails and they're getting new soil and everything. Moahaha I'm gonna be a mite killer, I'm so mean.  ;D |
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Post by sezzy5889 on Sept 15, 2005 17:05:08 GMT
i would but i can't  it's pissing it down outside  |
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Post by Val on Sept 15, 2005 17:28:37 GMT
Sarah, you have to get your snails out of that soil!!! Take them out, rise them carefully one by one and then get rid of the soil - all of it and replace it with some damp capillary metting as a 'bottom' for the tank, the mites cannot live on matting. I think it was James who had this problem with mites and he set up a tank as in my thread "An alternative way to keep babies" ( in HABITAT) and the mites just died!! For tonight I would just put them in a bare tank with a handful of moss or something anything to get them away from that irrittion. Try it and let me know how you get on. Leah couldn't get the matting so she used a coir basket liner instead - just as good  hth. Val |
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Post by sezzy5889 on Sept 15, 2005 17:47:44 GMT
I don't have any of that :-(
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Val
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Post by Val on Sept 15, 2005 17:55:24 GMT
Well put them in a bare tank for tonight then and get some when you can, at least you can start the process of the mites dying. You gotta keep them out of soil until the mites have gone!!! They thrive in soil.
Val
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Post by Annelie on Sept 15, 2005 17:58:25 GMT
How long does it take until the mites die?  |
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Post by Val on Sept 15, 2005 21:01:36 GMT
I have never had a mite problem, but I have heard that it doesn't take very long once there is no soil.
Val
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Post by Val on Sept 19, 2005 17:46:14 GMT
Sarah, you have to get your snails out of that soil!!! Take them out, rise them carefully one by one and then get rid of the soil - all of it and replace it with some damp capillary metting as a 'bottom' for the tank, the mites cannot live on matting. I think it was James who had this problem with mites and he set up a tank as in my thread "An alternative way to keep babies" ( in HABITAT) and the mites just died!! For tonight I would just put them in a bare tank with a handful of moss or something anything to get them away from that irrittion. Try it and let me know how you get on. Leah couldn't get the matting so she used a coir basket liner instead - just as good hth. Val Sarah. did you do any of this? If they were left in the same conditions then I have to say that it really isn't surprising that they are now very ill. I hope very much that it isn't too late for them. Val  |
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Post by sezzy5889 on Sept 19, 2005 19:23:02 GMT
I've done everything i can, now it's up to them
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;D
it's pissing it down outside 
hth.
