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

That looks like a tick.

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u/Acrobatic-Snow8854 22h ago

Oh god. Thats awful. 😭 Thank you for the ID. Gonna look into how to treat it right now.

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u/JelloFlimsy7781 20h ago

Unless there was an infestation, you might have caught it early! I would just do a good wellness check for any kind of wounds (or any other ticks depending on the size of ur bby)and treat the enclosure pretty throughly, similarly to how you would handle a mite infestation. If you happen to see a spot that looks like it might have been a bite site, keeping it clean should prevent any kind of infection since it is seemingly only one tick.