Several months ago, fairly close to the same time, I got my Orangetail girl and het Albino girl Boas.
They are in condos stacked one atop the other.

I noticed the het girl soaking a lot but the breeder said a lot of his Boas liked to soak and they usually were doing just that when I went to his shop.
I didn't think much of it except for having to constantly wipe up spilled water and refill her bowl.
She ate well.

The the OT started acting weird.
She'd had babies this year and was thin so I was told to feed her 1 jumbo rat per week to get her weight back up which I did and recently switched her to a 2 week feeding schedule.
She became very restless and kept acting like she was looking for a way out of her condo, rubbing her nose rough with all her poking at any possible escape crack.
She ate last week and then acted twitchy again so I tried to feed her tonight.
She was not interested.

So I got BJ's rat and tried to feed her only to discover BJ looking like a shriveled dry mummy as if she had seriously stuck shed which I couldn’t understand until I took her out and she was COVERED WITH SNAKE MITES.
COVERED!!!
They were falling off of her like pepper.

Bella, who lives in the condo below her, had them too.
Now I know why she’s been so restless and upset.
They were sucking the life out of my snakes.

I just spent two hours shop-vaccing, wiping down and spraying their homes, soaking the girls to drown as many mites as I could and *then*, when I took Bella out of her tub, either slime or water ran out of her mouth and I could feel rattling in her lungs and her nose bubbled.
She had her mouth open like a severe RI for a bit but has since stopped that.
I can't feel the rattling like I did when she was fresh out of her soaked and highly stressed but it doesn't mean it's not still there.

I don’t know if it’s an RI or water or what but I'm terrified she might be getting very sick.

As back story to this mess, on Oct 24, the people from whom I'd purchased a Dobermann puppy called me to tell me she was 'in really bad shape, possibly seizing' and to come get her right away.
$1000, many tests, IVs, observations and 24 hours later, she came home from the emergency hospital and I've been doing 4 hour rotations with the hubby, watching over her and giving her food, medicine, etc.
[she nearly died and still has neurological issues from the frigging traumatic brain injury she 'mysteriously acquired' while at the breeder's, along with her having a completely healed broken elbow at the tender age of 5 weeks]

Because of all that, I have not been paying my usual obsessive attention to my snakes.

I feel guilty as sin for that because if I had been, surely I would have noticed this reptile train wreck bearing down upon me.

I have ordered PAM and it's supposed to be here within 3-5 days from "The Bean Farm".

I used DeFlea Reptile mite spray in the mean time.

I am exhausted, sleep and food deprived, a nervous wreck, so broke I can't even pay attention and now this.

How will I know if Bella has an RI?

I have Baytril, Amkacin and Tylan but a trip to any vet is positively out of the question.

There is simply no money left to do so after 'Halla the puppy's bills and the $300 spent on my support dog just last night to make sure his sudden vomiting wasn't a bloat or obstruction.
I'm 'borrowed out' for months.

Could she have inhaled water and that's what I'm hearing?
She was very upset about the soak whereas BJ took it fairly calmly.

What more can I do until the PAM arrives?

I checked my other snakes for mites and so far, there's no sign of them having them, possibly due to the fact that on feeding/cleaning days, the Boas are always the last in line.

I have a neuroses about ectoparasites so naturally, I ran up and hot showered immediately after cleaning them and threw my clothes in the washer.

I'm at a loss.

So much misfortune in such a short time.

How do I safely use the PAM?

Why were some live mites still coming off the girls after their soaks?
I noticed them on the paper towels as I was drying them.

And, they were walking on my arms which just about gave me the screaming-meemies. [see neuroses, above]

It's bad enough that I'm going to have to sell some of my beloved Beeps to make up for the puppy vet bills but I was definitely keeping my Boas.

This is heart breaking.