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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spidey noob" data-source="post: 50660" data-attributes="member: 3191">@ennhe should be able to help !!!  (acarology is the study of mites/ticks ect)try not to worry abought it to much !!! mites are presant in all enclosures & in small number there harmless, its just an explosion of them that cause problems.there is a couple of things i would like to point out to u though !!!1, it dosent mater weather your Ts are in a viv / rack / full room set up if u have a might explosion u will have problems regard less !!!(if u have a mite  explotion in a viv there containd to some degree & its not hard to clean them out due to there small size, but i u have a whole T room u have a larger area to worry abought & clean)2, mites are on nearly every feeder u have or will ever feed your Ts, (there is nothing u can do abought it !!!)3, all T keepers will encounter them at some point. (to some degree)4, i now see the mite problem im haveing as a learing curve, it is a nunance but im slowly getting on top of it !!! (hope fully if i encounter them again i will be better prepared for them) <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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