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And I agree with Angel here. They do look like mites. Also, can we get a pic of the entire enclosure? Is ventilation adequate?They should be mites. I can see their legs on the pictures. By the looks of it, you should dump the substrate, wash the enclosure thoroughly and use new, less soggy substrate, regardless if they end up mites or not.
Yikes, that's scary. If they'll eat eggs, there's also a chance they could hurt an immobilized T, like one that was molting.Def mites there. I've had the same species in my enclosures before. I have as well had them inside my egg sacs, and destroyed each and every developed egg. Whether or not they're considered clean up mites, get them out of there and look over your T.
You seem to be talking about two different types of mites. There are mites that live on the tarantulas which need to be manually removed and change the sub stare out immediately upon molt to try to eradicate them.Get that substrate out and rehouse the T . . . I just purchased 4 T's (2 Gbb, 1 Lv, 1 P. Regalis) and should have inspected them thoroughly the Regalis is all good but the 2 Gbbs had them all over after a few days. I Rehoused them and pinched grabbed them and began to remove the mites with a small pair of tongs. Luckily they are both okay and doing great. These mites will attack the T especially when its molting. I had thought the Lv (Lampropelma Violaceopes) was also mite free but was sadly mistaken! Noticed its carcass yesterday, full of mites and they look exactly like this. They will also go into other T enclosures so make sure to quarantine this one from the rest of your collection until your sure its mite free.
What t are you keeping in there?Dang it ok. Well I'll do that then.
I took some substrate from my roach enclosure and that had them (I used it because it had springtails in it). And no, it isn't always that moist.
Wow -- sorry to hear about all this happening. I hope you'll keep us posted on if this is a complete success or not. I hate mites!We recently discovered what appear to be small white mites in several of our enclosures and on a couple of the tarantulas. After reading some of the threads here we put the effected tarantulas into clean completely empty enclosures with a lot of ventilation, a dry paper towel, and a very small water dish. The ICUs are all in a 29 gallon tank that we're using as a quarantine area away from the other enclosures. Within a couple days we started finding dead mites in the bottom of the dry ICUs and not on the tarantulas. We weren't willing to take any chances with what type of mites we were dealing with and fortunately we seem to be having success in getting rid of them without any losses so far.