Once the tick has been removed, clean the bite wound with treat it with antibiotic ointment. Check your iguana s enclosure thoroughly for any other ticks, and change the substrate. Ticks aren t nearly as common or problematic as their cousins - mites. Mites - Like ticks, these arachnids attach to a host and suck blood. They are much smaller, however, and are usually found in large numbers on your iguana and in its enclosure.
Mites are much more active than ticks, and appear to be tiny, moving specks.
If you ve got mites, you ve got problems. You ve got to treat your iguana, and you ve got to aggressively treat its enclosure. Neither of these steps is easy or fun, but both are necessary to be rid of the mites permanently. This will suffocate the mites. You ll need to repeat this once a week until no more mites appear.