I'm in Missouri where it's hot and humid and I don't have maggots on my snakes food nor do I keep the food laying around long enough for maggots . No I'm not going to read your link I don't need to...
as I know for a fact flies have to lay eggs on the dead before maggots hatch which means he's a not someone who keeps up on his snakes and their care. If they are hatching out in his snake bins that is terrible!!![/QUOTE]
lol, humidity in Missouri may be comparable to NY, I highly doubt it, but I'm experiencing fruit flys from misting my bins or the smallest bowl spill.
Don't read the link,
, but dont insult a FELLOW reptile enthusiast on a subject you are obliviously ignorant.
I'm guessing your facility is as immaculate as a medical clean room, but others deal with snakes defecating occasionally (lol) which can lead to those small flies if not cleaned up immediatly, especially with this heat.
Dunno about Mississppi, but here in FLorida maggots can appear overnight with any incentive. It doesn't take "bad husbandry" or fungus. Florida has bugs everywhere and unless you're inside a sealed lab, you've got some kind of bugs.
A bit of dampness, or even the tiny drop of blood etc from a rat left behind in the bedding... anything is enough for maggots to hatch out. Unless you're changing your bedding DAILY completely with sanitizing each time, it can happen.
That said, the vet needs to issue a report about whether the visable worms were diagnosed as pinworms, or if they ALSO diagnosed pinworms in the samples, alongside the maggots. People listening to vets often hear one thing, when the vet actually said/meant something else entirely.
Or the vet is incompetant and doesn't know what pinworms look like, which I'd find doubtful since parasites are covered very extensively in vet school and they should have referance material in case anything strange comes up in practice.
Back on topic
IMHO rodentpro has delivered such quality feeders for so many years that a BOI inquiry thread with no solid proof will effect there business in no way shape or form. Im willing to bet most BOI dwellers have already done business, or know someone who did business with Rodent pro and would not let this thread effect them. What type of business gets no negative feedback? I mean christ, the OP was'nt even bad mouthing RP, just trying to send out a "Tornado watch" to be on the safe side. it has already been beaten to death that he made a mistake in posting too soon, but he had a vet wh0 who had at very least 7 years of schooling, very educated folk, telling him the worms were parasitic.
