Tarantulas and Mites - What YOU Need to Know!
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- If you keep Tarantulas, Scorpions, Isopods, or really any arachnid or invertebrate that lives in an enclosure with substrate, you have or eventually will see tiny little insects crawling around called MITES. In the tarantula hobby, or really the arachnid and invertebrate hobby in general, there has been an increase in concern and panic over the past few years anytime someone finds a few mites in their enclosures. Sometimes they see them crawling around on the substrate, sometimes crawling up the side of the glass, maybe they're found floating in the water dish and occasionally they are even seen on the tarantula or scorpion themselves. The hysteria is even more extreme when a tarantula suddenly dies and the cause is not known, but upon close examination MITES are found on the dead tarantula and the seemingly logical explanation must be MITES KILLED MY TARANTULA. Though this is rarely the case, it has not stopped this urban legend from tearing through the hobby causing keepers, especially new keepers, to panic at the first sign of mites and go to drastic measures to eliminate them, sometimes at the peril of their pet tarantula. When in reality, most species of mites are not only harmless, but virtually unavoidable. So today we are focusing on finding the TRUTH about mites in tarantula enclosures and what YOU NEED TO KNOW!
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00:00 Intro
00:20 Mite Hysteria
01:35 Paid Promotion Simply Spiders
02:38 What Are Mites?
03:42 Mites or Springtails?
04:30 Are Mites DANGEROUS to Tarantulas?
05:54 Common Mites in Tarantula Enclosure
06:42 Phoretic Mites
07:06 Parasitic Mites
08:02 How To Get Rid Of Mites
11:06 Predatory Mites
12:55 Tarantulas & Mites Overview
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I love that new keepers can just listen to videos like this after veteran keepers did all the hard work for everyone. Props to people that give effort to spread helpful facts in this hobby.
As a new owner myself I wasn’t where to start. Finding these videos have helped a lot an have brought up things I did t even known I should be looking for. I’m thankful that so many people are willing to share their knowledge so I can provide the best care I can for my Ts.
💯 it’s a lot easier and straightforward with videos like theseeee it saves all the reading😂 and there’s more info on the plus sideee👍
I woke up this morning with about 50 mites in my B. boehmei’s water bowl. Then upon looking closer to my other Ts I noticed they had a few as well. I was so scared all of my babies were sick! Thank you for posting this, I appreciate all the effort you put in your videos.
Were they floating in the water?
Were those oribatid mites ? I saw a similar case recently
Such an awesome video, guy, hobby- just want to thank everyone who’s all in this together!!!
If this video came out a day ago, Literally yesterday about the same time I found mites in my Geniculatas water dish so I Imediately took her out and cleaned the enclosure. Anyways keep up the great work bro ;D
So helpful as always! Thank you very much for all the work and research you put into your videos!
Been waiting for your next video, always learn new stuff from watching you, keep up the good work much love buddy
Thank you for making this video! It’s very reassuring as I spotted mites recently in one of my enclosures and did a tonne of panicked research (as a newer keeper). Thankfully I found good advice and the mites have depleted in number. This video will be a huge help to many and in helping with the reputation of mites!
I bought a scolopendra sp earlier in the year at a expo. After having it for about a month I fed it on camera and found parasite mites on its legs and near the holes where it breaths, on the sides of its body. I've had many different types of harmless mites, but this was a little stressful. I separated it out of the spider room, then bought some predatory mites. I ended up sprinkling a little bit in all 100+ enclosures. I haven't seen them again after 2 doses a week apart.
I have been watching some of your early videos Richard and I’m blown away by how much more professional they now are. They were always good but now they have gone over that edge to be superb.
Really helpful. I'd noticed some soil mites in some of my enclosures, and it helped a lot to be able to see the difference between those and harmful mites.
Great video man!!! Very insightful 🙃I feel like familiarizing myself with helpful details is a great way to stay updated on possibilities good or bad. 😎
This has been sooooooo helpful! I currently have 20 tarantulas and have noticed mites in two of my tanks. I commonly see them in my isopod colonies, but first time I have seen them in my tarantula enclosures. Love all this information and how it was presented. Definitely following closely from now on!
THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUU! Been looking for an updated video on this since I got in the hobby a few months back!
What a relief ! Thanks so much for addressing the mite scare issue. It eliminated a lot of stress from both my pets and me 👍😊❤️
Whew!! Thank goodness. Being new to the hobby, I was worried after seeing a couple tiny mites crawling around in my slings enclosure! Thank you for this info, you've eased my worries. Oh, and I love the shirt!!! Subscribed!
Been waiting for this one! Thanks Richard.
thank you so much for making this video! this greatly eased my anxiety and i’m sure will do the same for countless other keepers 🤍
I am that new keeper that decided to raise my own superworms and found grain mites all over one enclosure and one shelf the superworms were on! I FREAKED and my husband FREAKED and like you said, we went to drastic measures to clean them out. We literally took the entire bookshelf outside. Changed substrate after cleaning enclosures. It was crazy and then I found out what they were and was STILL GLAD we did all that. LMAO! No more raising superworms for me! I live in South Florida and now have an discoid roach colony and have made a few bucks with those roaches! ;)
Brilliant video Richard, very informative and interesting 👍.
Just dropping in quick to slap a thumbs up and a comment ;).
Love your work my dude, you inspired me to hop back into the hobby after 8 years in hiatus!
Thanks so much for this, I have not had any in any of my T enclosures but I get em quite often in my cricket enclosure
Great information! I am a PhD student who studies insects (we use Drosophila as our model organism). Mites are a big concern in the lab since they can cause damage to the flies. So it was always something I was worried about but I have been reading up on them/watching vids like this and a lot of my fears have gone away.
Just wanted to say thank you for this video! First time ever getting wood mites in my tarantulas terrarium and I was freaking out! This video really helped me! I got some springtails, let the terrarium dry a bit, and it’s been looking great! Tysm for all the informative videos!
Mites are not just arthropods, but arachnids (and not insects unlike said at the beginning). I'm currently compiling research on mites associated with scorpions and tarantulas, and except for this oversight, this was a pretty good vid ! The FB post linked in the description doesn't work anymore sadly. Another subtilies is that many mites maybe be photeric or free living as adult, and parasites in their juvenile stages.
The timing of this video!!! Just noticed mites last night. I figured they were unavoidable. Thank you for clearing this up. Much love! ❤️
Great video on mites in saved that one to watch again later. Thanks for all the help you give us.
GOD BLESS 🕷💖🕷💖🕷💖
Thank you!! I've been stressing over my spiders with grain mites and this has helped me control my wild mind and think rationally about slowly getting rid of them.
This is what I was looking for many many thanks I had such bad anxiety about these in my tanks now I’m not worried great info as always
This is extremely fascinating. Thank you for sharing this
We just rehoused our new p.metallica and noticed mites in its little enclosure. I came straight to your channel to see how much we had to worry about it. Thank you for easing this newbies mind.
Thank you so much for this video I was just checking on my T’s for the night and my daughter called me over to my pink toe that I bought from a local exotic pet store with the already bio enclosure set up so I didn’t think to much about it but anywho she called me over to her enclosure and showed the smallest of little roundish bugs I’ve seen and I’m so glad I came directly to your channel because you have been a heavenly sent to T’s community lol so I knew you would have a video of mites and I can breathe now lol knowing they won’t hurt my T.
Im a new Scorpion owner and 2 weeks in i just noticed a large amount of "bugs" moving around. took out my macro lenses to take some videos for a close up look and after some research on google image and eventually this video, i now can rest easy knowing its just a harmless mite. Thank you for all of your efforts in educating us with your videos!
I'm a new tarantula owner, i have a Brazilian Pink Bloom, i have her in a 20 gallon terrarium and i was never told anything about mites being in the substrate, thank you for making this video, it's just what i needed!!!!
thanks Richard i needed this video ive got mites in my millipedes tank ive have done research and gathered they were not actually harm full to them but youve made me a lot more confident and less worried
I got the same issue, my ivory millipedes keep rubbing against cork and the sides of the enclosure, so I’m worried they are bad mites and causing stress to them. Yet I can’t actually see any mites on them just the glass.
Awesome video and information, thanks for making it happen. 🤙🏻
Thank you very much, I was really worried since suddenly I observed mites in the water bowl, therefore I panicked a bit, in addition to all the exaggerations I readed on the forum, now with this video I am more calm, I just change the bowl of water almost daily to empty the mites and I let my only two affected terrariums dry out a bit. A certain positive point is that there were not only mites, I also found springtails, so that will have them better controlled
Great info. Thank you!
So helpful. I really love your channel, so grateful for your efforts to educate us.
So nice of you
I never worried to much about them. But I do love this video. A lot of good info. Thanks
I can’t thank you enough for this video and all you do. I love your enclosure builds and all the good info 😁
Thanks!
From research I have done, springtails will also outcompete mites for food/resources and the mites will eventually leave/die off too. I had a massive outbreak of soil mites in my isopod enclosures. I increased the number of springtails in their enclosures and also used tape to get mites that were crawling around on the sides of the enclosures. This combination has worked to bring the mite population at least down to smaller levels. :)
Thank you, that was an incredibly valuable service to the community! I’ve even heard that the dangers of parasitic mites are exaggerated, as they draw very small amounts of hemolymph, and they can’t effectively be bred in captivity, even by those that have TRIED, because of their complicated life cycles (which are still poorly understood).
Have you done another video on mold? That’s another exaggerated threat, I believe.
its not the amount of hemolymph , anything that sucks blood have a chance of spreading disease ....
I think mold is more of a threat to the keepers than the tarantula/invertebrate ince our respiratory systems can be harmed by the spores. Plus mold is unsigntly lol
Thanks this is really helpful. Thanks Richard Love your channel
Valuable Info. I'm having Mites in the breeding Box of my Megasoma acteon Grubs. At First I was worried, but now I think they're Kind of symbiotic. But if they'll get out of Hand I'll try these predatory Mites as You recommended. So...Thanks.
I started with Ts this year and had some trouble with too many mites, this helps a lot! Thanks.
Ventilations and leftover management. Ez
The fact this video appeared the day after I found one in my T’s enclosure is wild since I also panicked but now know better…thank you!
Neat Video! I was curious about Fungus gnats (might be a pretty cool video too I hope). I have problems with them for my T. Stirmi.
I had been wondering about this, thank you!
I love tarantulas and scorpions honestly all exotics your content is amazing so is tarantula kat hope y'all have a blessed week
thanks ... and i will send your well wishes to Kat as well!
I feel a lot better now. Thanks for this!
Really informative, thank you 😊
The numbers are bad. Didnt realise you were a lost fan, awesome show. Great video richard.
Seriously love your videos!
Thank you for that great information
I saw a little tiny white one walking across the wall of the enclosure. I couldn’t see any others although I’m sure they are there. This video put me at peace. Thank you x
Hello great video information Richard
Great information, thanks.
Thank you so much for making this video! This helped me alot since I'd still say I'm a beginner
THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
Thank you so much. I just noticed some mites in one of mine.
I really needed to see this.
Thankyou xx
Nice info bro richard. Thanks
Very informative content.
I'm watching from Philippines
Thanks, that was great, saw that the majority of my slings had mites, but now I dont need to worry, I was just about to rehouse them all, about 50 slings but I will let it dry out a bit instead and be careful with taking old food and garbage from the container, great video and information, puh...
Thank you so much for your videos. The information is so well put together and very accessible. This video will help a lot of keepers for years and years!
Thank you! I bought 1 curly hair and 2 B.hamorii.These days i saw some mites and i was freaking out! This video gave me some peace in my mind.
Yeeeees! Perfect Richard, thank you sooo much. :D Finaly the video the internet has been waiting for. Thank you. :)
Interesting video thanks for sharing
Thanks sir I really enjoy your videos ✨
Dude, I cannot understand why you don’t have over a million subscribers. You make great content, you’re passionate about the subject matter, the visuals and audio are great, and you’ve got an epic beard! Thank you for putting this information out there for us to see. You’ve become literally my top UA-cam channel over the past couple weeks, and I can’t wait to join the hobby by getting my own grammastola pulchripes sling here soon!
Thanks man great content! Just got into the hobby and love videos like this
I’ve only ever had to deal with rat mites, and they are super hard to get rid of 😮💨 fortunately haven’t run into any mites with my inverts !! 😊
Great info!
I can absolutely vouch for predatory mites, i use them on my house plant collection and they have been a life saver with regards to spidermite, i have over 100 plants and manual treatment just isn't practical. Good to know they work with my 8 legged friends too
Thank you, so much, for this info!
Valuable and reassuring advice 😃
Great information, as a newer keeper this would have caused me a lot of unnecessary stress.
Thankyou so much I keep a few 'pet' invertebrates including a T. But just now I went change my giant Asian Centipedes water dish and it was covered in tiny white mites! I was horrified I then checked her and only can see one on her atm. My Mario worms had some mouldy food in with them and that tub was teeming with them. Everything else atm seems fine. Glad to find your video.. proper scared me as heard bad bad things only .. again thankyou 🙏
I found some mites after leaving a bit of food in for a little too long. I wasn’t panicking, but they are definitely non dangerous mites. I also found some springtails in the same enclosure. I have also noticed fewer issues with mold in this slightly damp enclosure so maybe this is a blessing in disguise.
😊.
Edit: this video was a good for peace of mind! Love your videos!
I usually check for any left over food in my enclosures, just to make sure. It's all good information to know. Cool content.
Thank you my friend!
Great video 📹 👍🏼
thanks for the elaborated and explanation. I just want to know if what I'm seeing is mites but ended up finishing the whole video.
See you do have Predator mites as comment earlier just manage finish watch this always great channel ✌️👍
Thank you so much. I picked up a packed block of orchid bark for an invert tank and ended up with an ASSLOAD OF TINY WHITE MITES and I've never had such visible, plentiful mites in any enclosure I've ever had and I was pissed. Like really, deeply, painfully pissed. Thank you for laying this shit out, because information was hard to find.
Thank you for making this video. I have a humid enclosure and the water dish had close to 100 white mites. After doing research, I determined that they are soil mites. I had noticed that they were completely uninterested in my tarantula even though it usually hangs out next to the water dish. They only congregate in and around the soil of the water dish. There isn’t one that I’ve seen on my tarantula. I’m glad you made this video but I used to be under the impression that mites were pretty much ALL bad for a tarantula, and that you had to get rid of them whenever possible
This video was very needed, I was stressed about this as I even had some in my room and I found out I had to remove humidity from my room I was worried if they where harmful or not at first I think they came from a bag of substarte.
Another great video! I'm new to the hobby and worry about things all the time. I lost a dubia in my tarantulas enclosure and I'm certain he didn't eat it as there were no remains. I think it burrowed but I don't want to pull his whole enclosure apart for the sake of one dubia roach.. now I hope it doesn't attract unwanted guests :/
Thank you for clarifying I wont overreact now, as a new keeper your channel is gospel my man
Haha. Love the Lost T-shirt! Good to know that not all mites are harmful to my inverts.
not me paying zero attention because I'm too busy fangirling over Richard's LOST t-shirt 👀
Thanks for this video buddy 😁
Now, I won't panic when I see mites in my enclosures 😁
Excellent video what more can I say
nice video keep up the great work :)
Thank you for this but I wish this video came out sooner so I didn't have to rehouse all 75 of my T's :(
75??
I use Predatory mites in my garden and enclosures. They will eat and destroy fungus gnats larva. Along with other pest that inhabit my enclosures or dwell in the soil. Beneficial mites are amazing. Also beneficial nematodes watered into the soil will destroy larva too. Both work really well.
Love this. Mites are super annoying for culturing fruit flies. If you want another video idea I’d recommend talking about that since there’s literally no good content even in the dart frog world
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Not only are mites arthropods, they share the same exact class as tarantulas, all other spiders, scorpions, and so on. They all belong to class arachnida. The arachnids! :)