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 Need help now, please

ugh we just finished moving into our new place...our new neighbors started moving in on sunday or monday. our landlord went up to check on them and make sure they were doing ok, and he said the upstairs place is infested with smarty pants roaches...these disgusting people (not just cuz of the roaches) brought these bugs with them...and now the land lord is wanting to bomb the entire house. he called rob and i to see what he could use that wouldnt hurt my animals. were going to talk to him tomorrow and try to convince him to just bomb upstairs. we havent seen any roaches. but i really dont have anyone to take all my animals for the day. is there anything "green" thats safe to use. im afraid of the fumes, and im afraid of the acid seaping into the wood of my cages. the price doesnt matter, hes making these people pay to get it treated. im so freaked out. something needs to be done tomorrow. anyone have any suggestions? please, im desperate for help.



11/04/09  10:31pm

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 Need help now, please

anyone?
11/05/09  12:19am

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 Need help now, please

Hey Kylie, I was just reading your post..Gosh I
m not really sure what you could use...but if he is going to bomb you need to take the animals out..and cover their Viv’s with some plastic or something...I’m so tired right now I can’t think straight or type..what you could do is call an exterminator and ask them....
11/05/09  12:40am

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 Need help now, please

the problem with only bombing upstairs is the roaches will migrate to the place that wasn’t bombed--yours. and i know you like roaches, but presumably not other people’s. if it’s still nice out in indiana (here we’re still having 70+ days), you can take everyone outside. i’ve bombed several times, and put my birds back after i aired the place for three hours. it’s a hassle but it’s do-able. what about your mom? she’s lived with all your pets already; could she do one more day?
jesse
11/05/09  12:26pm

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 Need help now, please

Hello,

I was a pest control tech for 12 years. Tempestborn is correct. The roaches will find a way out of the fogging and head downstairs. We rarely ever never fogged one apartment and not another for that particular reason. First thing we did was spray the cracks and crevices. Then we would fog. Your best bet is taking your pets out of the apartment. If people had fish tanks we had them cover them with a wet towel. However I don’t recommend covering the cages as protection. I always keep rubbermaid containers for situations where I need to remove my reptiles.

As for a maintenance protection of roaches, I don’t have any recommendation for a product that is "green". I have used in my own place a product called Drione. It comes in a powder. It’s a bit expensive, but I have used it effectively in controlling these Florida pests. Applying it is usually as a powder, but I have had good success with mixing with water, water being just a carrier agent. This will help avoid putting the powder in the air. I literally have this on the baseboards directly behind my iguanas cage. Maybe an inch away from the cage.

I hope that helps. Feel free to ask me any questions. I have been out of pest control for 6 years now, so there may be new things on the market. Another application you can look into is MaxForce. I believe they are sold to the public, but wasn’t always. I had good success with that too. I see many people try baking soda, but honestly...I still would have to exterminate their homes. I only seen one effective application of baking soda usage which was aerosol and could be put where it needs to be put. It basically dries out the roaches. I have used that very effectively in heavily infested areas, but you need to be licensed to get that item.

Basically a lot comes down to application. A great pest tech can control a pest situation with a can of bug spray. Just keep in mind that most roaches are a crack and crevice pest and that is where the application must take place.

PE
11/05/09  05:12pm

 #2092386


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   Message To: Pe   In reference to Message Id: 2092360


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oh wow thanks PE. we didnt do anything today. found out the 3rd floor (im on the first) was bombed last night. but he was talking about using the boric acid spray upstairs.

but i have no where to take the animals. im kind of a hermit. only reason i have a man in my life is cuz he used to be my upstairs neighbor. lol. but we told our landlord that if we HAVE to get the reptiles out, i want the people upstairs to pay for a hotel room, and he thinks thats fair. but i have big reptiles. a 3 1/2 ft iguana. a 2ft water dragon. both cages are bigger than my twin bed. then my 2 conures and their big cages. then i have 6 cats. and a mouse. and my bugs i feed my water dragon. im just so upset and being inconvienced over all this.

but whatever we can find that works, no matter the price, the "trash" upstairs is paying for it. and its not just the roaches that make these people nasty, its just them in general...all 7 or them. ugh

but i will have the hotel thing as a backup. i just worry about the acid seeping into the wood/cloth of my cages. not to sure where i can get a piece of plastic large enough to cover them both. they are side by side now.

but thank you again! if our landlord has any questions, i will send you a private message.

-kylie
11/05/09  06:27pm

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   Message To: Pe   In reference to Message Id: 2092360


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oh and our high temps here are around 54 each day. haha.
11/05/09  06:27pm

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   Message To: Birdfever69   In reference to Message Id: 2092386


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Kylie,

I wouldn’t be too worried if they are 2 stories above you. I do have correct something I mentioned before. It hit me when you said boric acid. It wasn’t baking soda that was in the aerosol can, it was boric acid. Boric acid is what I used to use in cracks and crevices that dried out the roaches. However I still maintain baking soda is not a great solution, just a mess!

What acid are you worried about seeping in? Do you mean from the boric acid spray?

PE
11/05/09  08:01pm

 #2092473


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   Message To: Pe   In reference to Message Id: 2092430


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i was worried about him setting a bomb off and the fumes getting on the wood of the cages.

but he said hes wanting to use the boric acid powder. supposedly its pet friendly. is this true? i dont have carpet in my room, and i havent noticed any of the nasty little critters. but i supose we could put the cats in my room, treat the rest of the house with the boric acid and not treat my room. ill just squash them as i see them. i would lay water traps, but id be afraid of one of my lizards escaping (they do that occasionally lol) and getting into the trap.

but is the boric acid safe to use around the reptiles? like fume wise?
11/05/09  10:20pm


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