As a producer and seller of frozen prey, RodentPro has a long history of helping people care for and understand the needs of their reptiles. To help its customers raise their snakes, geckoes, bearded dragons, and more, RodentPro has published several guides, including one on how to deal with reptile mites.

1. Reptile Mites
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2. Reptile Mites
As a producer and seller of frozen prey,
RodentPro has a long history of helping people
care for and understand the needs of their
reptiles. To help its customers raise their snakes,
geckoes, bearded dragons, and more, RodentPro
has published several guides, including one on
how to deal with reptile mites.

3. Reptile Mites
Like ticks and fleas, mites infest an animal,
drinking its blood for nutrition and potentially
carrying diseases from one reptile to another.
Mite species adapted to feeding on reptiles do
not typically feed on non-reptiles, but they do
use them as carriers to find new hosts. As a
result, the best way to prevent a mite infestation
is for a reptile keeper to watch for them at trade
shows and other gatherings where mites can
spread.

4. Reptile Mites
Most methods of killing mites, like chemicals
and heat, may also kill a reptile, making mite
infestations extremely tricky to deal with. The
best way to treat mites is usually to submerge
the animal in water as much as possible, then to
painstakingly inspect the reptile for remaining
mites and kill or remove them using a mineraloil-treated cotton swab. Mites also live in the
environment around a reptile, so its enclosure
must be treated chemically as well.