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Pebbles82 · 09-06-2020, 01:03 PM

I had some on a rotten blueberry once that got overlooked. There were a few crawling around it - I spot cleaned them out if that area and no more. As Cypher said these won’t be hamster mites. They could be from anything if the environment is right. It won’t be his pee. Does his water bottle drip on the substrate at all? I had some issues with damp substrate once. Are they in a particular area? Also some hay items can bring mites. But you freeze everything. These things can just get in when doors and windows are open and find places attractive to them maybe. The usual suspect is food though.

09-06-2020, 01:03 PM
Pebbles82 Hamster Antics Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 23,533	Re: Signs of mites - even tho' I freeze everything! I had some on a rotten blueberry once that got overlooked. There were a few crawling around it - I spot cleaned them out if that area and no more. As Cypher said these won’t be hamster mites. They could be from anything if the environment is right. It won’t be his pee. Does his water bottle drip on the substrate at all? I had some issues with damp substrate once. Are they in a particular area? Also some hay items can bring mites. But you freeze everything. These things can just get in when doors and windows are open and find places attractive to them maybe. The usual suspect is food though.