[Mites] has anyone used equate lice shampoo?

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I'm going to give the Lice shampoo method a try but I couldn't find Nix shampoo at walmart so I picked up a different brand called equate and they both have the same active ingredients same amounts as well (Piperonyl butoxide 4% Pyrethrum to 0.33% pyrethrins Is their any reason this wouldn't be good to use I'm waiting for replies before I use it.

[snakemaster]

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I have used the equate brand and it worked fine i mixed it up about 80 ml of the equate shampoo or a third of the bottle to one gallon of water and it did the job.

[HopingForBabies]

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I have used equate lice bedding spray,but not the shampoo. I would think there is a chance it ingests it though.

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Now I read when cleaning the cage spray the new paper towel heavy with the solution and also spray eyes of the snake. should I be worried about the snake flicking it's tongue on the soaked paper towel and will it be safe on the eyes? One of the snakes is not mine I'm just using it for breeding purposes. I would feel horrible if something happened to it.

[HopingForBabies]

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What are you using??? I would not spray anything in the snakes eyes!

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Thats what I thought too here's the link where it says spray in eyes http://www.albertareptilesociety.org/caresheets/nix.pdf I wanted to get everyones opinion before even coming close to considering it.

[monkeywrench133]

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I wouldn't use anything with that high a concentration of permethrin on a reptile.

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Maybe I should just buy Provent a mite and use it after soaking the snake, this seems like the safest way to go.

[shogun678]

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Is it only the two snakes? If you have tubs you can wash them really well, and bath both snakes making sure to get every mite and you might kill them all. It has worked before.

[RTB_luver]

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WOW i but some lice stuff that had a lot of permethrin like i dunno about the same, i cant remember what it was. I never used it on the animal tho just a log

[monkeywrench133]

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The Equate Lice Bedding Spray is the exact same thing as Provent-A-Mite, and costs about 7 times less. I'd go with a combination of it (for the cage), and Repti-relief (for the boa). Or Sevin Dust instead of the Equate. Less chance of toxicity with the Sevin Dust.

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Thanks everyone for your input.

[joshua.britto]

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i used it once, then mysteriously my neonate hypo started regurging, so i switched to Provent a mite.....i havent seen one since

[snakefreak89]

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i have used lice shampoo before and it really did the trick. you just have to make sure u water it down and dont leave the snake in it for more than 10 or 15 minutes because it is really powerful.

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to shogun678 I have 5 Boas and a Kingsnake I'm going to treat all of them the same but only 3 Boas actually have niticable mites and the 3 are in 8ft wooden cages. I wish I had them in tubs I'm building a rack right now just waiting on the heat tape. This will be alot easier once I get tubs.