60-Six
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Hope I'm posting this correctly! I joined this forum just now in order to ask for help on this matter.
My skin is absolutely crawling right now.
I feed my crested Pangea Fruit Mix and tonight I pulled his food bowl out to feed him only to discover it was crawling with nearly microscopic bugs. They're incredibly tiny and almost impossible to see but his bowl was crawling with them! After inspecting his tank, which I keep lined with paper towels, I noticed the bugs only seemed to be around where his food bowl was so I'm certain the food bowl was the source.
Right now I have his bowl just sitting in a tub of water to hopefully drown whatever is on it, but tomorrow I'm definitely gonna go out and buy whatever it takes to kill these things.
So several questions:
-What are these?
-What is the best way to kill them that would be safe for my gecko?
-Are they a danger to my gecko?
-Even if I completely cleanse the tank, will I need to give my gecko a bath to ensure they're for sure gone? (And I'm aware you don't normally bathe cresties and that's something I'll have to be very, very careful with if I need to do it. If I do, I'll look into the safest way to bathe him but one step at a time)
I do normally clean my gecko's bowl out but I've been incredibly busy this week with work and so some food did sit in there and dry up which I'm sure is what attracted whatever these are.
My skin is absolutely crawling right now.
I feed my crested Pangea Fruit Mix and tonight I pulled his food bowl out to feed him only to discover it was crawling with nearly microscopic bugs. They're incredibly tiny and almost impossible to see but his bowl was crawling with them! After inspecting his tank, which I keep lined with paper towels, I noticed the bugs only seemed to be around where his food bowl was so I'm certain the food bowl was the source.
Right now I have his bowl just sitting in a tub of water to hopefully drown whatever is on it, but tomorrow I'm definitely gonna go out and buy whatever it takes to kill these things.
So several questions:
-What are these?
-What is the best way to kill them that would be safe for my gecko?
-Are they a danger to my gecko?
-Even if I completely cleanse the tank, will I need to give my gecko a bath to ensure they're for sure gone? (And I'm aware you don't normally bathe cresties and that's something I'll have to be very, very careful with if I need to do it. If I do, I'll look into the safest way to bathe him but one step at a time)
I do normally clean my gecko's bowl out but I've been incredibly busy this week with work and so some food did sit in there and dry up which I'm sure is what attracted whatever these are.