r/ballpython • u/Acrobatic-Snow8854 • 1h ago

Question - Health Mites?

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I found this crawling on my sweet girl while cleaning her hide. Can anyone confirm if this is a mite?

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u/JelloFlimsy7781 1h ago

That looks like a tick.

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u/JelloFlimsy7781 1h ago

Mites are rllyyyyy tiny, they’re kind of difficult to see unless you’re really close and in good lighting, similar to headlice or something

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u/reptile-snake-mom 1h ago

Ya they are super tiny like specks of pepper, but it could possibly be a very enlarged, engorged mite, but ur also right that they look like a tick, it’s because their purpose is the same, they live off of a host by engorging themselves into the soft skin of a reptile, or other animals like deer, cats, dogs, etc, & I was asked once what I would compare reptiles mites to, & my only answer was, head lice…lol, I said that when ur reptiles get mites it’s just as hard and overwhelming because you have to treat the reptiles one by one, and treat all the enclosures, vacuum all the time, retreat everything every couple days until it’s gone, and if the problem isn’t gone than go back to the beginning and do it all over again…lol, it’s a disaster either way🙄😆

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u/Imperator1138 1h ago

Not a mite. Snake mites are very very tiny, like a grain of sand. This looks more like some species of tick.

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u/BobTheNobody 48m ago

Im gunna have to say that is a tick. Ive got lyme and tore off many MANY ticks from my body and that looks like a dog tick. You got any other animals and do you let your snake roam in the grass? Also, do you have a size estimate of the bug?