Judy, The OP is in new york, where PAM is illegal. NIX has the same active ingredient (and the same amount of that ingredient) that PAM does. It works exactly the same.

OP: Please don't spray the mouse with anything. At all. The mites that live on rats and mice are not the kind of mites that will harm your snake. They only attack warm blooded animals.

As I said in your other thread, as long as you are getting your feeders from a reliable source you will never have to worry about mites.

Since you used the NIX, you will be mite free for at LEAST 30 days regardless if you reintroduce more mites. They will just die once them come in contact with the treated snake enclosure.

Snake mites are generally spread through contact with other snakes, on your clothes if you handled another snake with mites, or sometimes in loose bedding (usually not snake mites though. More commonly wood mites).


I think you are worrying too much.