Ok so I'm fighting mites now for a few weeks with some sprays and stuff from the pet store. I did as everyone here says to do. Took out the substrate, cleaned everything and so on. Anyway, none of that worked so now I'm trying the pest strips. I want to try to make sure the room they are in is free'd of them so I left the strip whole and hung the strip in the room a few feet from the enclosure. I did this about 12 hours ago and just went to check on things but still see moving, alive mites on my snake. How long should I expect things to take doing it this way? I would just cut a piece off of the strip and put it and the snake in a small tub but ultimately the problem is still in the room and the process will just repeat itself. Maybe I'll end up doing that too but the answer I need is in regards to my current method please......Thanks in advance.