How did your snake get mites?

My BP (who was also my first snake) came to me with mites. Of course, at the time I didn’t know much about snake mites at all and didn’t even realize he had them until several weeks after I brought him home. That said, I’m kind of glad I experienced them with my first reptile as there was no way for them to spread and it has made me super diligent about preventative treatment with new additions.

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Originally Posted by KKM

... I’m kind of glad I experienced them with my first reptile as there was no way for them to spread and it has made me super diligent about preventative treatment with new additions.

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That IS lucky...it's miserable to have them spread to a whole collection of snakes before you realize they're there at all. When I've dealt with mites in the past, I did have
quite a few snakes, but all cages were spread out in my house & the mites never spread beyond the one new snake they came with.

So far I've had them twice, both times they came on new bps and thankfully both times I caught them before they spread to other tanks. I got rid of them by liberal use of reptile mite spray and a mostly bare and sanitized tank for the afflicted snake. Both times the mites were gone within a month.

Got it three times as I remember. First two times from a snake that came with them, thankfully was in Qt so was easy to get rid of.
The second time I took some of my collection with a local herp group for a event that we were doing. Bearing in mind, I had been doing this for ~3 years with no issues, but one of the people (the people who run it no less) had a Sudanese plated lizard they brought along that was absolutely riddled with mites. I found the mites after we were handling the plated, then my burm.
Found mites on her a couple of weeks later, and infested almost all my collection

Took around four months to get rid of entirely but they've been mite free for a good three months now and I hope they do not come back again.