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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave Jay" data-source="post: 144535" data-attributes="member: 27677">To be fair though, I don't have enough personal experience specifically related to tarantulas to say he's wrong, it may be that tarantulas are much more sensitive than other animals to "harmless" mites, but years of experience keeping other animals tells me that they generally aren't much of a problem. My veiw is that most are actually beneficial because they do multiply so quickly and clean up a mess, then just as quickly they die off again.Mind you, I did take some action last night, I put some steak offcuts on top of a couple of enclosures, now there are none to be seen inside or outside of the enclosures. I had an explosion of mites because I fed too much meat to my Dermestid beetle colony which sits on top of a stack of enclosures and the mites were roaming around on the outside of the enclosures and starting to make their way in to a couple, meat bait did the trick though.</blockquote>