If u use tissue paper as substrate,how to get mites?The water dish is to let the scorps drink and let the mites drown.

@ izzulogy - this might help... http://www.mtsociety.com/forums/index.php?topic=690.0

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Added on July 23, 2009, 1:23 ammites does swim on the surface of the water...

This post has been edited by rideon: Jul 23 2009, 01:23 AM

But eventually they will drown in the water dish also

now i oledi using tissue as sub.. but if u asking how i got the mites prob in the 1st place, its becoz i put mealworm container on my scorps container.. and those mealworm mati beramai2.. and the mites came..

yes... but you must change the water when you do see them floating in the water...

So next time just remove the uneaten 1 lo

Of cos la...And hav to chg it everyday

its not the mealworm dead bcoz uneaten, they dead in their own container..
like many die, they bcome rotten, others went onto the rotten corps, then they oso die.. lol

ooo.. i thought mites will drown the go into water,, ceh

I actually dont understand the thing u say
FYI,mites will drown in the water dish.
For the mealworms,mind explain? Cos the point i'm getting now is,those mealworms dat die attract mites in the mealworms container,then how come the mites can go for the scorps?U place them near 2gether?

Hmm they will drown in the water dish if im nt mistaken
Actually u can ask tarantulas keeper for more info as they are more experienced with mites than us

Er, sry man, my blog brought u back ur bad memories
But well, life goes on and we have2 continue living...
But i dun remember i put sad song in my blog O_O Does Reila count?

Actually do u have any wild caught invert/vertebrates in ur collection?
As i know, this mites doesnt come all the way to ur house, usually we brought them back from wc thing...
But i could be wrong though

Reila does count cos we dun knw the lyrics,only the music

This post has been edited by HyourinMaru: Jul 23 2009, 01:50 AM

none WC at all.. maybe they come from the mealworms? becoz when i got back home, the mites are full at the mealworm container!! until when i took it to trow out, my hands are sumwhat sticky becoz of the mites covering the whole container!

hyorinmaru: yes, i said it alot of time ady, i put the mealworm conatiner on top of all my scorps individual container, bcoz my house had pest control, thats y i put them together.. so the mites after attacking the dead mealworm, they move on to my scorps container, which was rite beneath the mealrom container.. get the pic?

Ic...BTW,u can save ur anger for how to eliminate the mites
Dun stress urself for this matter,we should use this opportunity to learn more about it.

This post has been edited by HyourinMaru: Jul 23 2009, 01:56 AM

what.. learn more about mites.. yes i want to learn more on them like how to DESTROY them.. whats that particular mite that sticks to your scorps.. not the one we always have but the other one. It stick really hard.. cant remember.. starts with the word 'N' if not mistaken...

Wat happen to u 2day?Learn more how to prevent mites,causes of mites and best way to eliminate mites...
Seriously,this is nature man

not angry lor~ just trying to explain hard..lol

i am a bit stress.. not bcoz angry, but tired.. becos i oledi haf alot of scorplings died bcos of this.. really pity them.., and it take a toll on me too.. to scrap all of them, to search all over the hostel, faculty and dustbin for bottle caps, and to individually check on each one..

frm what ive read, in oversea, they use good mites to kill those bad mites.. but that doesnt available here..

and i wonder, can we use those mites killer for reptiles? but since the mites infecting reptiles are diffrent from mites infecting scorps n tarantula, i dunno if it would work.. and i dunno if it will effect the scorps itself..

nematodes if not mistaken.. this one really stick to the softer part of the abdomen of ur scorp... im currently plucking them one by one from an infected scorp. kinda hard to get but you can clearly see it..

I think those r call pill bugs or wood lice.I think we can get them.If u dig ur garden sometimes u can c something like this:

Dat will roll up if u touch them.So u can try to dig for some
They r suppose to feed on those harmful mites

wait... nematodes is longer and it looks like root from trees... this one look similar to that mites we got.. but a little bigger. clearly seen between the abdomen... cant take pic coz somebody borrowed the cam.. but its really stick to the scorp.. not much around less than 10..

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Added on July 23, 2009, 2:16 ami got loads of those in my garden... since it rains heavily these 2 days. i think they might be under the compost pile around the corner.. seen them 3 days ago.. (had done some gardening... lol)

This post has been edited by rideon: Jul 23 2009, 02:16 AM

So get some of them and drop into ur scorps tank.

no, not those pili.. frm what i read, they are good mites, which are also mites, but mites that eat other mites, and die when their job is done..

do u really think those pili can be put into the same container with scorps? either the scorp will kill them, or scorps die..