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Insects in cage

Postby robere » Thu May 19, 2011 4:37 pm

Got some small flying insects in Skeeters cage. Would it be safe to use No Pest Strips in the room where my BTS is? I'm thinking maybe use it for a few days then remove it. The room I have her in is not an enclosed room.
I use to use them in moderate amounts for my snakes to get rid of mites...
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Postby xxmonitorlizardxx » Thu May 19, 2011 4:52 pm

I would completely clean out the cage and see if they are still there.
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Postby Coomassie » Thu May 19, 2011 5:15 pm

Like Monitorlizard said, I would clean out the tank and put down to substrate. You can put up fly strips, OUTSIDE the tank. I had fruit flies in my tortoise's enclosure. I just put two fly strips up nearby and after two weeks they were completely gone!
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Postby robere » Thu May 19, 2011 7:12 pm

Fly strips might work. These arent flys. Cleaning out the cage will probably only be a temporary fix.
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Postby Fatal_S » Fri May 20, 2011 5:21 pm

I've used no-pest strips in my room when I had mites. I generally used it for a few hours, then removed it for the rest of the day, and did so for a couple of weeks. One thing is to make sure there's no food/water in the tanks, since the chemical that the no-pest strips emits coats everything (it'll make a film over water) and you don't want your reptile eating/drinking when it's contaminated. I just offered fresh food/water and removed it after about an hour.
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