question for people who have had mites

Some great advice has already been given here, especially regarding the use of PAM. However, a great way for the inexperienced keeper to definitively determine if they have mites is described next. Take a paper towel. Wrap the paper towel around the snake completely neear the head. Let the snake crawl completely through the paper towel. Unwrap the paper towel, and if your snake has mites, you will see black dots on the towel (a few or many depending on how sever the problem is). Those black dots shoudl crawl around. It is a very easy way to tell if your snake has mites, and will generally detect it when there are only a couple ther. That is key to treating the problem before it gets more serious.

As others said, even if the trick above does not yield any mites, and you have any shred of doubt, a quick, easy application of PAM will not hurt and could be extremely beneficial.

Hope that helps,

thank you everyone for your help, i ordered P.A.M. and i will treat the enclosure's as soon as i get it to be on the safe side and i will try wrapping her in a paper towel and let her go through it to see if any mites come off of her, i have her on white paper towels so do you think i would see them running around on that? Or only if i had them really bad cause i dont see anything on the paper towels and i just triple checked her mostly on her head around her pits,eyes, and mouth and i didn't see anything, no black things running around on her or discolored scales that could be a mite that isn't moving.

I would try the bath give it a bath and then lightly hold her head under water a few seconds.