Hi people


In my cricket's cage there is small white mite like things that multiple by the thousands each night.I just cleaned the crickets cage and gave all the crickets to my spiders.What is it, a tape of mite or what it doesn't look like they are harming the crickets nor the t's but still I doesn't trust them.They eat the dead crickets


now what can it be ?

Hmm... anyone ?

No idea but i woulden't buy those crickets again.

@ vinzy, The person that I bought the crickets from is on this forum,but I think that "mites" came from the petshop where I bought some crickets. but I am finished with crickets now I am turning over to roaches !

Lol i think i will also turn to roaches now, heard so much good about them.

Hi

I found this piece in the tarantulas keepers guide from (Stanley A. Schultz and Marguerite J. Schultz)

This is only a small part but my advice would be to buy the book from amazon.com, it is a must have for tarantula owners.

There are two types of mites, spring tail and those that crawl. The ones that crawl are a danger to the spider, the way I clean my tanks is to take out my spiders, and wash the tanks and all of its accessories with jic or bleach. But I rinse it out very well so that the jic or beach is completely out. One of my opinions would be is to not throw in a dead cricket, nor let one of the limbs stay in the cage after the spider clearly is not going to eat it, AND, clean out the cricket holder at least once a week!! Most of the mites come from dead crickets, and also from peat moss with leave type of structures in it. To get rid of the mites without cleaning is to dry up the cage but NEVER below 50% humidity. This is for all the spiders except for swamp dwellers.

Both the mites can live in very high temperatures and die at their freezing point. Thus heat will not affect them, but the freezer will. Lol…. Tried that one…………..

You can never get rid of the mites, but you can only control their number.

Hi have the t' keeper guide from the stanleys, i dont throw in dead cricket for my spiders. The "mites" dont harm the crickets or the spiders but aets the dead crickets in the breeding cage

I had a mite infestation on one of my ts which was a pain in the neck but i have finally managed to get ride of them totally and have not had them return.

The mites are dangerous for the spider, the get inhaled by the spider, and would eventually then kill the spider. In my revised edition of keepers guide, on page 223 second par. on the left.

"Three things are certain about the mites that infest tarantula cages. They are an unsightly nuisance, they irritate our pets, and they will eventually cause their deaths."

The par. under that aswell tells about the possible death of the spiders. Mites are dangerous. I've had the situation myself, the only way I found effective is to redo te cage, meaning wash out, new peet moss, but keeping an eye open for several days to make sure they would not come back.

Dasie wrote:



That is why you have to clean the cage in which the crickets are, and throw out any dead crickets, or any limbs that stay behind after the spider has already eaten. My advice would be to run your breeding cage dry as the mites would not survive but the cricket will.

www.wikihow.com/Raise-Your-Own-Crickets

Read the warning side of this web page.

thanx hophop but theirs just one small thing, they where not sucking on the crickets ? But yea I am finished with crickets turning over to roaches