How did your snake get mites?

[KKM]

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.

[Bogertophis]

... 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.

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.

[Alter-Echo]

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.

[LightningPython]

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.