12,500 Live Hypoaspis Miles (Predatory Mites) For Insects - Guaranteed Live Delivery!

I want to express my gratitude for these mites. My sweet ball python came to me last Fall. She was severely neglected and had mites. She was miserable. I tried EVERYTHING to get rid of those mites. The ONLY thing that worked was this package of predatory mites. Fast forward to this month (April 2026). I noticed my poor girl started soaking in her water dish again. I found a few mites crawling on her. My heart dropped because she had been free and clear for MONTHS. I still have no idea how she got them again (we haven’t added anything new and have no other reptiles). I placed another order for these mites. I have a bioactive enclosure for her, so the thought of starting all over again is overwhelming. It has been about a week now. No more soaking in water CONSTANTLY. I haven’t seen a single mite crawling on her. She’s back to being her happy, comfy self. Due to the humidity in the enclosure, we also had some pesky fungus gnats trying to make a home in there. They are gone now too. The ONLY downside is that they eat the springtails. Otherwise, they leave the isopods alone. I will approach this the same way I did last year and wait a few weeks for them to finish their duty of eradicating the POS snake mites, then I’ll add more spring tails again. This approach has been so cost effective (not needing to redo the entire bioactive enclosure) and heal effective for my sweet snake who is no longer suffering. I am considering doing a maintenance round in a few months for ongoing prevention since this most recent incident seemingly came out of nowhere. I swear by these little predatory dudes now. So easy, so quick, so much less invasive compared to other mite removal methods. Thank you!

Bought these to control a grain mite problem in my dubia and mealworm feeders. Released onto a moistened ground coconut substrate as soon as they arrived. Arrived packed with a cold pack when the weather was about 50f during the day and 30f at night. Saw 1-2 of the actual mites. Figured they were dormant due to the cold. Increased temp and humidity in the room to be favorable for the mites to proliferate. Started checking often to see if any of the purchased mites where active. Watched my grain mite issue EXPLODE until they were literally dripping from enclosures. Saw very few hypoaspis miles, could not even count 10 with strong light and magnification among the substrate or infected areas. Contacted seller and they sent a replacement, which was pretty much the same. 12,000 is a pretty large number, the container should come crawling with these little guys, not 1-2 and as the seller insisted, the rest being eggs and nymphs that you need to wait on hatching/growing. It's just not logical. I did wait the 18 day life cycle in hoping there would be some results, but nothing changed. Seems the few predator mites just ran away. There's something grossly wrong with this product, and I wish I hadn't gambled even with all the bad reviews. Seller did reship and refund after several emails during this lengthy process. Avoid.

We have bioactive reptile vivariums with soil, humus, and coco fiber mix substrate that use natural insect cleaners and have occasional grain mite, fruit fly, or fungus gnat explosions if things get unbalanced. Boosting our cleaners will eventually outcompete the pests for food but it can take many months as they find any other sources around the house to also live off of. I'm also in an agricultural area of the midwest and mice are inevitable every fall but this local population around the farmhouse we moved into comes with a parasitic mite. They can end up killing my gerbils and cause the cats and dogs to itch sores as the mites desperately look for more food sources. I spent 8months dosing my pet animals but meds only kill the mites after biting, trying to kill the infinite population of wild mice and stop their spread into an old house of infinite openings for them, and spreading nontoxic followed by less safe solutions all around areas of the house to kill the mites with no success. The population got so numerous despite all attempts that I began breaking out in red dots my doctor said did not look like any mite that typically bites humans. We decided releasing something that naturally hunts the pests down might be better than trying to kill or prevent every last one from managing to spread in the house. I actually didn't realize this arrived for 2 days as it sat at room temp before I spread the contents over damp soil and distributed it to vivariums and shallow seed trays of soil kept misted with water in several rooms. Even if it initially just looks like a container of nothing the barely visible mites could be seen when they started actively moving around on to different surfaces. Anything smaller than them or that reproduces in the soil was destroyed. Finally no more itching, no more medications, no more harmful compounds that the dry powders and sprayed areas took another couple months to clean off the floors, and bonus instant death of all flying pests instead of months of slowly killing them off. Even houses with no pets will get fungus gnats attempting to live on any moisture source including kitchen sink drains in areas of high insect levels like here so I think it's the only time in my life I've never seen any in a house for so long. I guess with a good food source the predatory mites multiplied and shortly after the pests disappeared I identified a gathering of the tiny moving dots around a water source as the hypoaspis. Then they were gone with no sign we ever released them except the lack of annoying flying or biting things around. I haven't seen a pest since then but if they make a reappearance in fall like most midwest pests of insect and rodent tend to do we are immediately spreading predatory mites without wasting all that time on insecticides, diatomaceous earth, vinegar in the sink drains, and scrubbing animal cages or sleeping areas. I'll gladly trade one temporary, nearly unseen critter wandering the house for a short time to kill all the pest ones that make themselves very noticeable.

Hello! So I was skeptical on this order as the reviews but noticed a lot of them were older reviews so I gave it a shot. I have an iguana with an absolute infestation of reptile mites they are red little mites that just eat him alive I’ve cleaned his cage with full bleach and went the whole 9 yards but nothing worked. I also have a sulcata tortoise that’s indoors and in a separate area but I noticed he doesn’t have repti mites but the wheat little cream mites on his poop so I decided to get this product and upon arrival it looked like nothing was in the dirt I honestly didn’t think there was anything in the dirt but I just decided to throw it on my iguanas bed and floor and my tortoises freshly cleaned tank and let me tell you next morning I go to look at my iguana and I see the other mites and not the bad ones the predators!! I see them on my iguana and I see them actively hunting on him since he was so infested. I even saw one physically eating one of the red mites on him and it was just great to watch they are very active! As for my tortoise I don’t think I see any yet but I also did clean his cage putting new dirt and new everything before putting them in just so that if there was any leftover wheat mites it would be easier to get rid of as my tortoises habitat didn’t have any horrible issue like my iguana did but anyways just get it and if you don’t see them still get it because it genuinely does have them in there and I saw it working on my iguanas scales I’ll keep you updated!! In the video is first showing the red bad mite then you see the brown bigger ones working around his body moving much quicker they seem healthy and in good condition.

I bought this to use in my bioactive vivarium which is 4'x2'x2'. Considering I couldn't store spare mites for later, I opted to dump the entire canister in the tank. Unfortunately it seems to have had minimal impact on the fungus gnat population after a little over a week now. The number of fungus gnats hasn't gone up, but it also hasn't really gone down much either. Worse than that even, it seems there were plenty of other bugs that have now infested my tank. I've been seeing some strange bugs with tiny wings that are NOT fungus gnats, and have absolutely exploded out of nowhere absolutely infesting the tank. They don't seem to fly and they're smaller than fungus gnats, definitely a new bug that wasn't in the tank before. I also saw one rove beetle just now which while beneficial, I did not want in my tank. Overall very disappointed by the results in eradicating the fungus gnats, and even more disappointed in the new pest problems its created for me.

Hard to know if there really was live ones but they seem to be working okay. 🤷‍♀️ Still have a few mites on my snakes but they dont seem to be soaking as much anymore.

I am a reptile keeper and unfortunately one of my purchases brought home snake mites. Devastatingly, I lost her (a baby) but these hypoaspis mites ensured that the rest of my snakes were safe. They had spread to 4 other enclosures and within a couple weeks they were gone. If you are a reptile keeper, these are a must if you have the bad luck if getting snake mites. These are 100% safe, no chemicals, no danger to your animals, just real danger for the snake mites!

Despite other reviewers mentioning no mites in their bottles, I decided to take a chance on ordering anyway. A mistake… I assumed that many negative reviewers just didn’t understand the magnification required to see the mites. Alas, I too did not find any mites in my order. I have a background in Entomology and feel confident in my ability to identify the presence of mites including (roughly) what groups they are in. I examined the media with a lighted 40x hand lens for 20 minutes, carefully combing over vermiculite many times. 12,500 mites were way more than I needed and finding several hundred would have been sufficient for my needs. I have ordered a different predatory mite species in the past, from another source, and when it arrived it was swarming with mites. 12,000+ mites should not be hard to find… Hypoaspis mites are large as far as mites go, and have a distinct body shape with a reddish/orange color. They shouldn’t be hard to find. I did find around 10 mites but they were prey mites presumably: translucent white, long hairs, and very small. Shipping predatory mites with some prey mites is standard practice. Finding only 10 prey mites wasn’t reassuring as well. I didn’t find any dead mites so mass mortality isn’t the issue. Knowing dead mites would be desiccated and therefor much smaller was a driver in my spending so much time searching. It seems that the seller is very inconsistent in their orders, with some orders swarming with mites and others with nearly zero mites. I think potential customers would be wise to steer clear of GoodGuys and seek elsewhere for their needs. If I had a snake (which I don’t) that had a mite infestation that was a health problem, I would be freaked out that I had yet another delay in trying to help my beloved pet. Several days ago I requested a refund and have not heard back yet. If I do get a refund I will amend this rating an review. If you found this review useful, please mark it as helpful so others can get a more complete explanation of considerations to make before clicking ‘Order Now’.