Hey everyone,
Unpleased to announce we found mites on one of our corn snakes. I took three off and killed them. Soaked him and two came off in the water. We bleached his enclosure and threw everything that we didn't want to keep out. His bowl and hide were soaked. We put just put paper towel, a bowl and a hide in. My Dad and I did an inspection. We have SEVERAL snakes, corns, ball pythons, house snakes and one spotted python. We only found two mites in the spotted, one was on him, the other was on his paper towel. We soaked him and nothing else came off. Nobody else had them (I understand eggs and such can be embedded and all of that), so I am not saying we are clean by no means. We had a Burmese python one time that had a terrible case. It was awful. This is no where near that extend. But still want to clean everyone and secure everybody so no one gets sick and to rid of these little sh*theads. Can anyone tell me what is the safest way to get rid of them. Products to use (mite sprays? Bleach? Other products) for the enclosure? Also, safest products to use on the snake itself? I heard intervecton (not sure of the spelling) is good but some snakes can have bad reactions. I don't wanna kill any of my snakes. I want to go as natural, but effective. I am open to suggestions. Thanks for the help in advance.