Quick question about mites

So Sasha is due for a shed some time within the next week or so. And I'm battling mites, here's the question: if there are dead mites stuck to her will they come off with the shed? Or what's going to happen? I have reptile spray and PAM so I'm working on the mite problem just wondering

Yes they would come off with the shed ... Also be careful using the mite preventatives especially the Pam right afterthe shed. I'm not for sure but I would imagine that a freshly shed snakes skin would be a lil sensitive for the first few days. I could be wrong but wouldn't hurt to be on the safe side is how I've always looked at it

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Originally Posted by T_Sauer

Yes they would come off with the shed ... Also be careful using the mite preventatives especially the Pam right afterthe shed. I'm not for sure but I would imagine that a freshly shed snakes skin would be a lil sensitive for the first few days. I could be wrong but wouldn't hurt to be on the safe side is how I've always looked at it

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I could be wrong, but I agree. I'd play it safe. But the last time I had mites, everyone was still using no pest strips.

Makes sense for the PAM not to be a good idea. I wouldn't use it right after anyway.

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I keep no pest strips in my snake room all the time as preventative. I also use reptile spray, not pam, and it says on the bottle to wait 6 hours after a shed before applying.

A shed is great to see how bad your mite problem actually is. If you catch the snake right after its shed within a few hours while its still fresh you will see the buggers crawling around on its face and such because they haven't had the chance to burrow between the scales yet.

So I would assume that a few hours after shed would be a good time for a soak? As the mites would probably come? I realize that it takes a while to make mites go away but I can't help but hope