I was looking at my ball pythons last night and noticed these little bugs, no bigger than the comma on your keyboard crawling around the snakes and into the substrate. I saw about 4 of them and tried to catch one but i couldn't. They ranged in color of clear, gray, and white.. one was brown i think. They had three legs on either side a almost tear-dropped shaped abdomen and a little head. I'm pretty sure they're ticks. Probably got in there from the live mice i had fed them not too long ago.
I have no idea how to cure this. Everything just says how to get rid of mites and not ticks.

Also, one of my snakes eyes is bulging out with a little white ring forming around the eye. I think it might be popeye.. I'm really scared. I don't have the money to bring them to the vet and my parents wont take them. They don't even like me having the snakes.

I'm so confused.