I have only had my ball for about 2 1/2 months now and i noticed a mite problem about a month ago. i treated it according to my Veternarians instructions and at last it went away. I did not see any on him and he was not soaking in his waterbowl anymore. I decided, since the mites were gone, il replace the paper towel (which i was using as substrate) with my jungle mix substrate. He is also getting fairly big so i bought him two new hides. I have noticed within the last two days, he is going back in his water bowl to soak which is always a bad sign. I took him out of his enclosure today and thorughouly examined him only to a couple of mites crawling on him. Could they have came from the substrate or the new hides i bought from the pet store? This is a real annoyance and any information on preventing this from happening again would be much appreciated. Thanks!