Ok. I am new to these forums but not new to corn snakes. I have had a few. Two weeks ago I bought a baby corn snake that is 15 inches long. He is an amel corn. We got him from a pet store out of town.

After letting him settle into his environment for about a week and after his first feed and rest, we got him out to handle. We had found mites, yikes. I have never had a snake with mites so I went to SEVERAL places in a few different local towns and 90% of them recommended Black Knight. They explained to take him out of the cage, soak him, then spray out his tank, remove old bedding, spray every object in his tank and let them sit and them rinse everything.

Then they told me to set the snake in an open place and use just one little seconds worth of spray in his general direction and let him sit.

We did all this, everything was rinsed and clean, and he was fine. A day later we went out for a few hours, came back and he was acting really wierd.

He was under his hide rock with his head sticking out and he acted like he couldn't move his head or like he was blind. I reached in to pick him up and instead of jumping or running like normal he just let me pick him up. But he stayed curled up and let his head hang limp.

Then after holding him, he wouldn't move! Then he starting pulling off some sezuire like moves. He would shake is head like he was saying 'no' really fast then freeze. We offered him some water and he just stayed still. No tongue flicking or anything, it scared me.

So we took a small dab of water and ran it down his nose and he finally flicked his tongue...IT WAS WHITE instead of his normal reddish pink...

After an hour of offering water and holding him he would move around a little, but not much, and he acted VERY dizzy or like he was blind. We re-rinsed and cleaned everything in his cage, got him fresh water, and adjusted the temps to 85 on the hot side and 75 on the cool side. (they were a little lower).

Then we put him back in for the night. He started holding his head up a little, but he wouldn't move from where we put him, like he was really weak.

When we woke up we caught him getting a big drink of water, whew. Then after checking on him again he was finally under his hide out log. (He has a log, a stump, and a rock to hide in, he loves them all)

What could have done this to him? The mites, mite killer or did I buy a sick snake?