I went through mite treatment with my pied after buying him from a reptile expo; he has been in quarantine since we own another ball python. He has been mite free for weeks now until I fed him on Monday.

I'm trying to switch him to frozen but so far he hasn't taken it so I'm forced to feed him live. I purchased a rat for him Monday after work and fed him in his tank; made sure he ate it okay then let him be. Before I went to bed I checked on him as this was his first small rat (just moved him up). I found TWO full grown mites on him!! I stayed up and changed out the paper towel in his tank, cleaned his hides and the tank, sprayed him down with Reptile Spray then checked under his mouth in the fold to make sure none of the little pests were hiding in there; nothing. Just the two adult mites.

Is there any way for me to treat the feeder rats before I give them to him that won't harm him? There is no other place around to buy live feeders so I'm kind of stuck until I can get him to accept f/t rats.