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she is still not well but still is warm and moving when provoked. The mites are less and less and are falling right off I am about to try putting the peadialyte in her bath. Basking temp is 102 cocl temp was 87 is that ok? this tank is much smaller than theirs but we are still cleaning and...

yes the bulb is in the garbage!!!! I tried getting the repta aid into her mouth but she wouldnt budge...she did drink well very welll at bath time the temps are very optimal in the enclosure i use one of those probe ones (walmart) to get accurate readings do you think i can add anything to...

So I have gotten like a thousand mites off and have a thousand mites to go but for less than 48 hours they look amazing he is still really fresh but shes not getting any better she drinks when i bathe her i tried pedialyte no luck and then i tried repta aid no luck there either making sure both...

yeah thats great thank you soo much for your help...I think the mites came from the crickets they have the same bag of substrate my big boys have and they are not infected( we are being very careful and will be changing everyone to repti carpet) As for their enclosure it is being quarantined for...

We have a compact UVB bulb by "zilla" the bigger enclosure that they will move too will have a long bulb...temps in the basking area are around 100-105 we have not had any dominance issues at all with the two dragons considering our male is now at this point slightly larger than our female_ we...

We have bathed them a few times today and I went and got the betadyne. They both soaked in the betadyne baths for a while. We were able to manually remove some of the mites throughout the course of the day but some are so deeply "rooted" they are going to take a while. We also purchased...

yeah I work in an OR so I am going to grab the betadyne tonight...They are REALLY infested and I cant believe I did not see anything moving before this my poor babies... the female is very lethargic and wouldnt eat yesterday or today..I have bathed them quite a few times today and removed a...

any help? How do I erradicate this problem?? And how the heck did my beautiful young HEALTHY babies get mites? Is the room infested?

OMG it IS mites I saw them moving this morning after bath time

I posted last night with this weird red to pink flecking on my beardies i didn't think they were mights nothing was moving and it flaked right off and mushed in my fingers...but after bathing today i saw them moving in the tank not on my beardies but in the tank same color and shape everything...

I found you guys last night in desperation for some help with my babies. I just wanted to say hi we are Beardie lovers. It started when we rescued our first and felll in love. We nursed him back to health and he became the beloved family pet unfortunatley he passed less than a year after rescue...

o great idea i didnt think of that they have a climbing tree that may have some residue i soaked it before introducing it but didnt scrub it I will check it out thanks!

no they have had the new substrates for about as month amd half now with a complete change every week and a daily cleaning of debry I noticed their bodies yesterday during "playtime"

Thanks for the advice on the substrate we shall give it a try the older guys might be harder to switch because they are so finiky but if its healthier then they will have to adjust I tried mixing them in moisture but no luck recreating whats on my babies its very much like a doughy substance it...

they were on plain white repti calci sand and i have switched them to a mix of crushed walnut and millet like the rest of our beardies this is not the same consitency of the walnut or color i tried making the crushed walnut moist to see if that was it but it was not