Ok so I'm sure we've all heard of(but hopefully not dealt with) Mites on Snakes. But what about mites on rodents/warm blooded animals. I recently found out about them the hard way! I purchased some ASF's from a local pet store. I ended up having one extra. It was a female so I decided to just toss it in one of my colony. A few weeks go by and I notice the ASf's are real lethargic. It turns out they were infected by a diffrent type of mite other than the traditional reptile mite. Well the good news is they were no harm to my snakes. The bad news is they were getting on me and EATING ME ALIVE!! I tried treating them with very little sucess and just decided to feed them all off. I bought 20 ASF's from the same store (dumb move)and started brand new colonys a little over a month ago. These rodents appeared fine and mite free but now I'm starting to see the little buggers again.

So now I have a bunch of pregnant ASF's I don't want to feed off. Has anyone else had this experience? What is the best way to treat this problem?