Ok, I'll start by saying that I don't think that I have been this mad in a long time. I have kept ball pythons for the last 8 years and have never had mights or any sickness of any kind in that period of time. I just bought 2 ball pythons a couple of months ago from 2 different breeders. I kept them isolated in the basement for a month and my others are upstairs in their room. I moved them into the room with the rest of them a couple weeks ago. I have checked them dozens of times before and since and everything was fine. But last night on one of them I found 4 mites. So I took him out and back to the basement, soaked him, and cleaned his tub. I am currently cleaning tubs and have found no sign of mites on any of the others. He had no mites for 2 months and then he just shed and now has mites, how is this possible? And what is the best mite killer/preventative to use that I can also use with my breeding females that I believe to be getting ready to ovulate? I want to put something to prevent mites in my other tubs just incase they happened to cross contaminate my rack. AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and thanks.