Mold mites?

[bellemacaw]

Today when changing the water in my sun conure's cage I noticed a white powder or mold in the water and around the water bowl. I took a real close look and saw that it was actually tiny bugs. And that they are elsewhere in the cage as well.

The thing is, I don't think the bird is affected. No visual cues anyway.
I had the window open in their room during a hot humid day and I think that is where they came from. The heat, humidity, plus the water from the bowl mixing with the cage bedding, which I hadn't been able to change due to busy schedule.

Could these simply be mold mites? Rather than bird mites.. or is that just wishful thinking?
Has anyone experienced these before?

Tomorrow I am going to thoroughly clean both of the cages and the room and use alcohol on the cages after they dry and buy a mite spray.

I hope this gets rid of them.
This has been a lesson to maintain a strict cage cleaning schedule.

 

[bellemacaw]

Well, I deep cleaned their cages and room.
So far no sign of the little bugs.

Unfortunately my sun conure did not make it through the day.
I didn't think he would, he was 3 months shy of 33 years old, which I'm told is very long for sun conures, and I didn't expect him to live much longer. There was no sign of mites on him or breathing distress. He just fell asleep.

the green cheek conure is fine, and I checked over him thorougly for mites, lice, or any kind of rash after giving him a good bath and he has none. He looks completely healthy.

I've quarantined my macaw's cage in a different room and wash my hands between rooms just to be safe.

Sad day.

 

[Christinenc2000]

I am sorry to hear you lost your Sun Conure

 

[Christinenc2000]

Re: Mold mites

Isopods are great friends to have in your tanks. They do need some moist places to hide in but they eat the white mites right up. I had a huge mite problem in my centipede tanks. I bought some rolypolys and now the mites are gone Spring tails take care of mold but I dont think they eat mites. Can anyone tell me if they do or not?

I don't think you want to put any of those in a Bird Cage