Until the very last ice in the water, we often see live balls, then bright red, then buried or greenish and even motley. Small, usually up to three millimeters, but are up to 5-8 mm. The creatures are very active, almost continuously float or crawl. These are water ticks. If you consider them, then you can find four pairs of legs - like all ticks, including many well-known Ixodes, which are forced in the spring and autumn of people to be alert, so that, God forbid, do not sit down and have not infected any disease. Water in this regard are harmless. In summer, they are full, especially among underwater grass. There are even in puddles and ditch. Freshwater (there is maritime) ticks a lot, and from completely different systematic groups. Only in the Hydranell group, the most, however, the numerous and diverse in the reservoirs of the whole world has already counted more than five thousand species, although the water fauna of many extensive areas has not really been investigated. The diversity of these ticks, called still real freshwater, is not so great in the northern countries, just a few hundred species, but we are most often noticed in our reservoirs. In suitable places, they are very numerous: there are more than two thousand tweezers on the square in coastal shallow water. Meter of the bottom, and several dozen species at once. Already only this indicates that they are one of the most important components of the underwater communities. In addition, with many underwater inhabitants, ticks are in difficult relationships.

Bright, usually the red color of many water ticks often consider the warning - they say, do not work, predators, anyway inedible. Like ladybugs. And indeed, there are observations that fish, grabbing such ticks, they are spoiled: perhaps, the ticks highlight some unpleasant for fish. But at the same time, in some places, for example, in the tributaries, the Pechoras, places and in Karelia, in a number of alpine rivers and lakes, they are often becoming a significant component of fish feed - some individuals of the pelets and sings were found in the stomachs several hundred at once. And then, many types of red ticks live in temporary puddles, where and there are no predatory insects, not that fish. Therefore, it is possible that such bright pigmentation is some kind of heritage from the ancestors. Their land relatives, notice, are also painted in bright, mostly red colors - they have the name of the corresponding: red -hotell ticks. Water tick life cycles are very diverse, but everyone has a larvae stage, the Nymph Stage and the Adult Tick Stage. In the summer, after a complex marriage ritual, females lay eggs on the surface of various underwater objects, in plant tissues, and some species and mantle and gowns of toothless. Usually, the female puts eggs by serving several times - a total of hundreds of eggs. The tiny, the shares of the millimeter, the eggs are surrounded by swelling secret, and sometimes, if the set of females are "spawn" in one place, the substrate is covered with a solid sliding layer - such a cluster of eggs is highlighted on a general background, since many ticks are red or red-yellow.

And there from the larvae there is a nymph - she has four pairs of legs. Before she, after complex transformations, will turn into an adult tick, the nymph, as the tick itself, hunts on fine underwater living creatures, primarily cyclops and duffs, larvae of various mosquitoes. Comparatively soft coverings of their victims are pierced with mandibulas and suck.

In winter, nymphs or adult pliers are also active, some species even multiply, but, like all his living creatures, we prefer to go to depth. However, in the middle of winter, ticks occasionally swim in the wells.

To confirm the diagnosis, you need scraping. Sometimes it gives a false result in the form of negative readings. The larvae is visualized in 50% of cases. But if there are signs of the disease, then you need treatment.

Sometimes ticks are confused with allergies. But with allergies, the animal does not show painful symptoms.

Treatment

There are several drugs used to treat subcutaneous ticks in guinea pigs.

Dose - 0.1 ml / 1 kg.

Screw a syringe from the tube the desired amount, remove the needle and drop on the skin. Hold the animal of 10-15 minutes in the hands, so that it does not combine the place of application of the medicine.

After 14 days repeat

The result of treatment appears gradually. Full recovery occurs after 3-4 weeks, when all adult ticks and pending larvae are exterminated or immunity has been restored so much that eggs have no opportunity to develop.

Important! You can use only one drug. The combination threatens intoxication. The repeated cycle of the pumping, injection is needed in order to destroy those ticks that hatched from the pending larvae. 14 days - the term of their maturation. The drugs do not act on the larvae, because they are protected by the shell.

Is it dangerous to people?

Treatment during the treatment

What a guinea pig looks like:

  • Class: ARACHNIDA LAMARCK, 1801 \u003d POUKS
  • Detachment: Araneae \u003d spiders
  • n / detachment: araneomorphae \u003d aranomorphic spiders
  • Family: Theridiidae \u003d Spiders-Tenerns
  • Rod: Hydrachna \u003d Water Tick

View: Hydrachna Cruenta Mull. \u003d Red spider, water tick

Red spider, water tick. - Hydrachna Cruenta Mull.

Bright red, small, round, like a ball, tinger. Quickly moving with their eight legs, the tick is rapidly worn on the water and has the appearance of a robust bright red ball.

Several such ticks planted in a can with plants are very beautiful and live pretty well, feeding in water by laid crustaceans. In an aquarium, where this tick is placed, neither fish nor large predatory insects should be placed, otherwise he quickly becomes their prey.

Interesting persecution of such a toll with a thick water bug in a comb. Rowing with all the power of their huge paws, rushing the ridge after the water tick. But the cunning tick, noticing the approach of the enemy, instantly changes the direction, and flying to the whole bug support, without being able to keep this scope, flies past. The tinger rushes further. Grebshka for him. The tinger is again in the watchman, "the rowing is again slipping. And so without end, until the knop fails to somehow hurt it to the walls of the can or attack without accident.

Subsequently, some pliers appear to be attached again, but this time to a water plant, and are subjected to secondary linen, with which they reach and puberty.

Breeding guinea pigs requires competent and reverent care products. Often such pets are sick and amazed by different pests. The tick causes animal unpleasant sensations and discomfort. In this article we will tell, which ticks have guinea pigs and how to deal with them.

Sarkoptosis

If your animal is strongly drawn, telesses the skin to the blood, and in the place of the defeat there are crusts of a grayish color - this is nothing more than sarcoptosis. The causative agent of this disease is the Sarcoptidae family tick.

Insects with a rodent rotter apparatus are thickened in the skin. On the surface of the skin in place of the lesion appear croaling growths (Hets). Due to them, the tick is held on the skin surface.

The source of infection is a hay or grass, which is eating healthy animals after patients.

Diagnostics

Treatment

For the extermination of ticks and the treatment of the disease they cause, acaricide preparations are used. The main operating component in such preparations is a substance of selemectin. The house in which the sickness of the sickness is treated with soda or vinegar solution, then irrigated the drug Barsik or Frontline.

The old litter is disposed of, and the new one is falling asleep only after driving the pallet. A few hours after disinfection, the animal is returned to the cage. Treatment of such a disease is recommended to be carried out under the supervision of the veterinarian.

Chesoccal tick

Infection by the spider tick occurs through direct contact with patients with animals. Moreover, subcutaneous ticks rarely leave their owner, only because of its death or overcrowding with rodents.

Subcutaneous tick, affecting guinea pigs, is not dangerous for a person.

Diagnostics

The patient rodent disappears appetite, he refuses drinking, as a result of this, the body is strongly dehydrated. At the launched stage, the subcutaneous tick can cause serious health problems and a fatal outcome.

Treatment

Patient Animal make injection by one of the drugs:

  • Oodctin;
  • Ivermectin;
  • Ivermek;
  • Newcomer.

Healthy animals are rarely affected by pests. Most often, they are subject to pregnant females, young people and animals with a weak immunity.

Demodecosis

Often, young individuals are affected through direct contact with an infected mother.

Diagnostics

Find and see this insect microscopic size is almost impossible without a special device. But it is possible to determine its presence by some signs:

  • the skin of the head and limbs is covered with papulas and pustulas, which are converted into ulcers after a while;
  • the affected areas become lys;
  • it is possible to swell the limbs, so the sick pig can fonder.

Treatment

Diagnostics is carried out by the method of capturing the scope and examination under a microscope.

The treatment of the disease is carried out by drugs, which includes the substance of ivermectin. It is worth considering the fact that it is a toxic drug, which means it can only be prescribed.

In addition, the sickness of the animal bathe in a chamomile decoction with the use of a shampoo doctor. Such a procedure does not help cure a sick of the animal, but eliminates unpleasant symptoms during the primary treatment period.

Trixacaros

This sore caused by ticks appears only at guinea pigs. Infection of animals by subcutaneous microscopic tick occurs through direct contact with patients with individuals.

Diagnostics

A distinctive feature of such a disease is a long absence of any symptoms. The female, which fell on the skin of the guinea pig, penetrates her a crowd and puts eggs in it. After a while, the animal begins to feel discomfort, severe itching and strong pain until the seizure appears.

An animal begins combing. Alopecia appears on the place of combs. Pregnant females of infection with such a tick can cause an abortion.

Treatment

Demodecosis (subcutaneous tick). Causes and treatment

Diseases of guinea pigs. Treatment of guinea pigs.

Guinea pigs. Bathing from flea ... or "vibration"

Conclusion

Pliers deliver a lot of discomfort and unpleasant sensations by guinea pigs. Sometimes the infection can lead to a fatal outcome. To your pet always looked healthy and beautiful, try to periodically inspect him and pay a little more attention.

Chesoccal tick (subcutaneous tick) -

Trixacarus Caviae.

These microscopic ticks are hiding under the skin and cause serious pain. You can notice scratches on the skin, the pig will Himself To bite your teeth, she drops wool. Serious invasions can be life-threatening. If you suspect that one of your pets fell ill with subcutaneous ticks - inspect the rest as soon as possible. Ivermectin (IVermectin), Oodkentin, Novomek, Ivermek - a drug for quick assistance. There are several injections of the drug, because these drugs do not kill eggs, pending females under the skin.

Subcutaneous ticks manifested by guinea pigs, Cannot multiply or live in humans.

The death of the guinea pig may occur due to serious dehydration, from more and more large wounds and from refusing to eat, due to emergency pain and discomfort. In a healthy animal, the tick can be inactive for many months or years, becoming a problem in a pregnant guinea pig, weakened by the animal during another disease or after stress. The most serious invasions occur in kids or very old animals, which have the most weakened immunity. The disease in animals of other ages is no less serious, possibly due to poor care or weakening of immunity.

Chesoccal tick (Trixacarus Caviae) - Spider-like insect. Infection occurs, first of all, through direct contact with infected animals, although eggs can be made by negligence. Ticks rarely leave the "owner", usually it happens as a result of the overcrowding of animals or the death of the "host of the ticks". Without a "owner", they usually die within 3 weeks. However, eggs that were postponed in the holes in the skin can live a large amount of time.

Photo - Kat. .

Signs: Microscopic ticks cause an unbearable itching in the animal and can lead to thinning and / or inhomogeneous hair loss, skin peeling (can resemble dandruff) and, ultimately, open wounds, as a result of strong combs that increase hair loss. Combing, in the field of leather with ticks, can cause such pain and itching from your guinea pig that an animal with a screech falls on his back and begins to beat in cramps.

While skin scraping and can confirm ticks, it is often not done. Because this procedure is very painful for the guinea pig and is completely unreliable. Often the veterinarian applies ivermectin (and analogs) with a strong itching and hair loss, in the treatment of another disease (such as fungal infection), when there is no improvement in treatment. It is important to note that your guinea pig may suffer from several reasons at the same time.

Diagnostics: Sometimes the veterinarian will absolutely incorrectly diagnose the invasion of the tick, relying only on the result of the skin scuffing.

Example:

"For treatment, a guinea pig was brought with strong bumps. Leverinar excluded the disease with a tick, when he did not find them in the skin scraping. I prescribed treatment from fungal and yeast infection, sent samples to the laboratory, made a skin biopsy, and felt that he had already explored every opportunity . The guinea pig was already twice under anesthesia when taking a sample. All this time is the guinea pig (which has already lost most of the hair) was with intolerable pain, with wounds, and without improvements. A few weeks later, the state had worsened. The Wordiner finally offered to appoint injections from Ivermectin in case it was still ticks. The result was immediate. "

If there is a suspicion of the disease with subcutaneous tick, do everything to cure your animal.

Chesoccal ticks can cause animal death!

Treatment: In case of invasion, the ticks are injectedIvermectin (otodectin ) Under the withers. Two or more injections are required with an interval of 7 - 10 days. Ivermectin is better not used on guinea pigs weighing less than 340 grams. Odectin is designed for use for small animals and is suitable for the treatment of babies of guinea pigs, stopped sucking mother. This medicine must be used in a strictly calculated dose. A good veterinarian should be familiar with the drug and know which doses are considered safe for guinea pigs. Observation of the competent physician ensures that the use of this drug is necessary. The veterinarian can also make the processing of open wounds and caused by the mass combustion and other complications associated with invasion. Crop claws to minimize further scratch damage.

Clean the dosageIVermectin (Oodtectin) In milligrams per kilogram of weight, for different animal species. Therefore, it is necessary to know the weight of the animal. Your veterinarian should know how to calculate the correct dosage.

When ticks are properly diagnosed, all your guinea pigs will need to be processed, and their living rooms must be fully cleaned. Avoid future infections, carefully considering newly acquired new animals and isolating them if you suspect that they arrived from dysfunctional nursery. Breeders typically plant new pigs on quarantine (as they can be tick carriers without showing signs of the disease). It is better to make the prevention of the subcutaneous tick of the newcomer than the risk to bring it a whole herd of guinea pigs.