Reptile spray vs PAM

Years ago I'd use Provent A Mite but when I didn't want to wait for an order to be delivered I'd pick up Equate Bedding Spray from Wal Mart. I haven't had any of that in a long time so couldn't tell you the active ingredients, but do remember it compared to PAM.

True story: my first ball python got mites. Looking back, I swear it was from a batch of aspen or something I bought at the pet store. (A very cool, locally-owned exotic pet store, but not the cleanest in the world!)
I tried prevent-o-mite, or something similar.... didn't work. Then I thought about how a snake would deal with mites in nature. I noticed the mites after he started soaking in his water bowl and leaving behind black poppy seed things. I then, logically, put a larger water bowl for him to soak his entire body in. He soaked like a crocodile, with only his nostrils above water to breathe, and the rest of him submerged under water. I stopped using any treatment, I changed his bedding daily, and cleaned the tank daily. I let him soak in his bowl all he wanted. He continued to submerge his entire body.
Every day, I cleaned out the dead mites from the water bowl. Within a week, all the mites were GONE! He drowned out two generations! The mites, then he drowned all their hatched eggs!:taz:

I don't know if all ball pythons are capable of this, but RAGNAROK THE MIGHTY, cured his condition and committed genocide on those mites, using only water, his natural go-to if he lived in the wild. This was two years ago, and I haven't seen a mite since! Also, since then he never soaks in his water bowl any more... Snakes know what to do with mites, you just have the to give them the environmental opportunity. :snake::gj: