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I am starting to move in to the new building. I figure a new building that I needed to clean the racks and spray them with PAM to start out right. All the snakes were soaked and then treated as well. Saturday we got through about 40 snakes and Sunday about 45 more. I have 3 racks in the building and two more to go.
 

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Man I would love to have spent my weekend doing what you did. Imagine 2 days straight of some jaw-dropping animals, I'd be in heaven. That's part of the reason I like to stay small, I even enjoy cleaning day.
On the moving note, that is no fun but at least it's just to the back yard. My wife is looking at buying a larger house so I may be moving mine a bit further, and I'm not looking foward to that.
 
I am with you Mike. I enjoy cleaning day as well. Taking the snakes out, making their homes nice and clean for them. Watching them explore the cleanliness of it all.
 
hartge330ci said:
Maybe a dumb question but how and what did you treat them for and why the PAM?
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For mites. It's provent-a-mite not cooking Pam! I always treat any new snakes that come in, but you can get them from live rodents or from shows. It's easy to treat snakes individually to make sure you don't get any, but its hard to treat the racks. If you have ever gotten mites you will understand preventive maintance.
 
I've moved my collection 5 times in the last 2.5 years, no fun at all. Haven't had to deal with mites since I was ordering burms 20 years ago but feel your pain there too. Way back then I ended up using a mixture of ivemectin and 7 dust and those no pest strips but guess there is better stuff like PAM now. Avoid wood I guess.
 
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