I got a new A. gigas a few months ago at a reptile show. It was infested with lots of mites and I have been removing them since October. They are very small and not the good mites that A. gigas usually come with. While cleaning yesterday, I noticed eggs or something in the feces. I do not know if it is new, i only noticed it yesterday. What are they?
I have never seen this before. That are definitely no A. gigas eggs and for mites they seem too big. Maybe there live a bigger wormlike animal in your A. gigas. You can look at the substrate if there are any strange worms in it hatched out of the eggs.
Maybe Klaus could help you if you send him a sample of the feces and/or worms.
Anyway I would separate that specimen from the others to do not infect them too and changing the substrate.
It is already separated because of the non-beneficial mites that I saw. I am feeding it lettuce, spinich, and iguana food from the pet store that was on sale. It is made for adults so it is all plant. To make cleaning easy, it is on no substrate, it is in a plastic container. I could get some samples of the feces and I can see if I can hatch them. Who is Klaus?
Hoohoo Snipes, contact one of the research scientists of the WU's department of biology, I'm shure they will help you. I think that will make more sense than sending the material to me to a german university.
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Friday, July 30th 2010, 11:26pm
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