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MITES!?!?!

Joseph Jelly

Joseph Jelly

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Hi all, so I recently adopted to corns from a friend of mine who couldnt hold on to them anymore. When I was handling one of them the other day, I noticed that on his ventral he had a section that had grayish/black dots all over it. At first I thought it looked similar to almost some sort of fungal infection. However after doing some research I found that it may be mites. Ive posted two pictures below and I would love to hear y'alls opinion....Is it mites or could it be just discolored scales...he is a motley and does actually have ONE random black scale on his ventral below his head...dont know if its possible for it to just be black pigment bleeding through....

THanks!

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Definitely just his color :) My motley boy has some of those mischievous little dots too!
 
Looks like color to me. I would think if it were mites they would be moving around. At least a snake I seen at a pet shop had little brown specks moving around on it.
 
NOT mites, mites are mostly found in-between scales, and tend to raise the scales if they have been present for a period of time (feeding). They can rarely be found free-ranging. (rarely because we humans don't happen to notice them when their not on our pet). You can remove a mite by running a finger across it, then across a paper towel & check the color smear... a pigment spot will not be removed by running a finger across it - a parasite will.
 
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