Ok so.

Recently, we brought home our first giant, a just under 3 foot albino burmese male. He's gorgeous and all sorts of feisty, but after some calm handling has been proving that his bark doesn't have too much of a bite.

But, he has mites.

I'm posting this as a new thread because I searched 'mites' in every way I could and scoured through the results to no avail, most everyone who posts says, "I found -a- mite" or "I found -four- mites!" Well, our poor boy has a heckuva lot more mites than that. :C He has them around his eyes, nose, and every inch or less on his body. There are easily 4 or 5 just crawling on him.

Here's what I've done so far, and it hasn't had a dramatic impact as of yet, but I'm not sure if we need to wait for results or if some of this should have helped a little.. I also don't know what is a -bad- case of mites. :/ I don't think he's there yet, but I don't want to take any chances.

I have both 'Reptile Safe' (a natural and topical mite treatment, the 'use every 3 days' kind) and of course, Provent-a-mite.

We tried to wipe him down with the Reptile Safe, but he was being a stink and was acting snappy so it made it a little bit difficult. We got him pretty well, though. Fast forward and tonight we soaked him in luke warm water, for an hour while his tank ventilated from being PAM-ed. When he was done soaking it didn't look like there were that many of the little jerks floating around, and there were still tons under his scales.

Should I just wait and see how the PAM treatment works and soak again in 10 days with a bit of dawn? Am I being a worrywort about this? This is the most mites I've seen and I'm pretty upset about it. I don't know how to treat his eyes, there are a good amount of mites aroudn them. Poor little guy.. I really just wanted some input on mite cases where more than just four were spotted and how to deal with that many. I also wanted to vent, it's upsetting that a place specializing in reptiles would have a snake with THAT many mites.

Anyways, here's a picture of the little guy on the drive home. (He's been nicknamed 'Bad Dog' but he'll be getting a real name soon. :]) Thanks for reading my massive post too.