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I use terracotta plant saucers as water dishes for my arachnids and centipedes. But whenever I keep the dishes constantly full, little tiny fuzzy pin-prick mites end up on them. The first time this happened I put the substrate and dish in the oven and set the tank back up.
Now I've just noticed the mites on my centipedes water dishes. I never see them anywhere but the water dishes, and never on the animals themselves.
Is it really nessesary to constantly battle to get rid of these few little mites? Or are mites like this more just a fact of life that you have to keep under control, like algae in a fish tank?
Now I've just noticed the mites on my centipedes water dishes. I never see them anywhere but the water dishes, and never on the animals themselves.
Is it really nessesary to constantly battle to get rid of these few little mites? Or are mites like this more just a fact of life that you have to keep under control, like algae in a fish tank?