ok so its mites....

keep in mind if you soak him put a few drops of a mild hand soap in the water with him. and I would start that ASAP. Also as others said clear out that tank of junk and keep him just on paper towels. And get that reptile relief ASAP!

Should get you by until the P.A.M. gets there.

ok here is a update, i came home last night, read the suggestions, so have his old 15 gallon tank set up for him

http://www.imagebam.com/image/ac18c6154733654

i was going to take him out of his current setup yesterday, but i could;t because the old setup i have for him to be in until the pam arrives is hooked up with a UTH with a dimmer, the herpstat is in the infested setup up, so i had to tinker with the dimmer all night and waited until morning to make sure it was kosher, and i got the temps with the UTH at a steady 85-88 so says my pe-2 temp gun.

Here he is right now in a bath, i did check the temps of the water too before putting him in and a sprayed a little reptile relief in the water as well. Im gonna leave him in there another half hour (?) then i will place him in the new tank. Later on when he is dry i will spray him down a bit more with reptile relief.

The only bad news is i just got a email last night, and the PAM wont arrive until next week since its ground shipping. So i guess hell be in his temp tank for a bit. In the meantime im not even going to bother with the other tank, petland has a sale 1 dollar a gallon, so im buying a whole new tank. Now im wondering how i will go about cleaning the decor and dishes/hides?? as of right now everything is the way it was, except i emptied out the water dish, i was thinking of buying some lice bedding spay and spray it down right now to kill any mites that are in there, then after that probably next week since i strapped for time, soak everything in a boiling hot water/bleach solution for an hour, then letting it dry...??

here he is soaking...

http://www.imagebam.com/image/f5d080154733665

ok so after 2 weeks of having him in a quarantine tank until the PAM arrived, i noticed something, i was soaking him in a bath everyday, and sparying him with reptile relief, and lined the tank with paper towels, yet, i saw no mites or ticks or anything whats so ever on him or on the paper towels. So i did a little research and came across "wood mites" Well i started to analyze his tank (which has been left untouched) and looks thru it all and saw nothing crawling around, until i took out the bark log i had in there, IT was infested with these small white termite looking things, these are the ones i pretty much saw on my BP initially. So now im thinking, he did;t have mites, just there was wood mites in the enclosure. Well moving fowards, i cleaned out the tank yesterday with bleach and water, then after that dawn and water, i boiled all the hides, water dish and decor. THRU AWAY the bark log, and after everything dried out, i sprayed the empty tank with pam, let it dry, re introduced new bedding and the newly cleaned decor/hides, sprayed that down with pam, let it dry, did a final bath to my BP followed by a spray down of reptile relief, let it dry out then re introduced him into his enclosure again. He is doing the usually, exploring around etc etc, but not a sign of mites or wood mites at all.

Im just a little worried that he is doing too much exploring, even during the day, i mean he speant most of the night in his hide but right now he is doing more exploring, is he just getting re adjusted to his "new" setup again? i mean would;t he remember his own home, nothing has changed except for that bark log that is gone.

Also he hasent fed in like 3 weeks, im gonna give him another week to get "adjusted" to the enclosure before i try again, either a week or until hes always hiding like before.

Am doing this right?

I am just going to say to be very careful when soaking your snake with that much water in the container. You only need the water as high as his body or less, or don't walk away and leave him.
I understand that is a small container and he most likely has no problems keeping his head up, and probably nothing would happen, but.

At the reptile store I worked at, a well known customer came in and the owner let her soak her snake in the back. She put in way too much water and the boa drowned.

Another customer drowned her baby cornsnake after the owner advised her over the phone to soak it.

When working there, we no longer advise people to soak their animal, instead put them in a wet pillow case.

That picture just makes me nervous.

ohhh nooo, i kept him in that container right next to me, and i took a look in there every 5 minutes if not less to make sure his head was above the water, also, no more soakings anyway, he is mite free for the moment, im just worried about the exploring part....

It will take a few days for your snake to get re-adjusted. Anytime you clean a tank, it smells different to them, so it might as well be a new enclosure.
Something that I learned about mites from some research that I did a while back, is that they will lay eggs outside of the tanks. The eggs can also lay dormant for some time until specific environmental conditions are present and then they will hatch.
I treat all of my enclosures every other month with Provent-A-Mite as a preventative treatment against any outbreaks... :gj:

yeh i read up on that somewhere, and i intend on once a month spray down my enclosure with PAM, aswell as the surrounding areas, i never want to see another mite ever again.