newbie to board and snakes (found snake in trash)

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so i was walking my dog a couple of nights ago and saw a guy carrying something out to his trash (looked like it was moving) and throw it in. he then threw a cinder block on top of the lid and went back inside. My instincts told me that he threw a animal in the trash can so i looked, and sure enough i got one hell of a surprise. 3 1/2-4 foot snake. I kind of reached in to see if it would bite me and picked it up, tucked it in my coat and ran home. I had a old 60 gallon acrylic fish tank/stand that has been sitting out in the shed for a few years. cleaned it up, and now he is doing great. I googled everything i could and now i have a heat lamp, with a daytime lamp, couple hides and he is doing great. this morning i was holding him and noticed a mite on him so i googled it. sure enough he had mites. first thing i did was run to the pet store and got mite spray for snakes, and then bleached out his entire enclosure, let him soak in a warm bath, and then sprayed him down with the mite spray. what else should i do? i also fed him last night (live medium rat) and he did great. I finally talked my wife into letting me keep him lol so he now has a PERMANENT home. (i went back to the house the next day and talked to the guys wife. they are in the middle of a divorce, and i found out he is a male snake)