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| a1_collection |
Cleaning a Roach TankWell there seems to be another invasion of mites in my hisser tank. The problem is that I have lots of baby hissers (3 generations or so) running all around, in and under the substrate. There is no way I can heat the coco fiber up with them inside. I don't want to lose any. Should I just sift through the fiber until I am confident I got everyone of them?Please tell me your methods of sanitation when mites invade. |
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| Celeste |
That's tough -- I usually dry the substrate out, but the babies can't really tolerate being dried out. Maybe sift out all the babies and transfer them to a new enclosure temporarily while you change/bake/dryout the substrate? | ||
| a1_collection |
It is going to be tough. So many babies. | ||
| rosenkrieger |
The way I sift babies out of the substrate is this: I scoop a little bit of teh substrate into something large and flat, sift through it, and scoop out any roaches I see with a vial. dump the sub, repeat with a new scoop. | ||
| WBurke17 |
Why not buy some of the beneficial mites and relaease them into your tank? | ||
| Steven |
Wash the adults off ...its hard to get the darned mites off the roaches.
I would love to get some pred mites but i have a bad feeling about bug keepers allowing non-native mites to escape into our local fauna. Cant be good. Wondered often if there is a native pred mite that we could research... and possibly cultivate as a group. |
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| rosenkrieger |
Do we happen to have any native psuedoscorpions? Those things are freakin cool. :p |
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| a1_collection |
Where can I get them? Are they even legal here? |
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| Celeste |
Are "beneficial mites" those big dark brown ones on my African Giant Black millipedes? If so, I can certainly spare a few! | ||
| balam |
I think I read somewhere the "red" mites (and I understand we can't just based ourselves on mite color, but...)are predatory mites.
check this place out for further info or other types of predatory mites... might be interesting to find what kind of mites you have in the tank and make the decision accordingly. http://www.sterlinginsectary.com/mites_calimite.html |
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| balam |
This is funny... just read the info you need and apply it in your case, I don;t mean to post this and have somebody complain or something like that, but it does have info on predatory mites:
http://420magazine.com/forums/pro...ites-red-spider-mite-control.html |
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| a1_collection |
So will these predatory mites have a population explosion once the job of killing the others is through? | ||
| WBurke17 |
Once they dont have a food source they will die off. | ||