Hello everyone, this is my first post on the forum. Thanks to everyone for all the information you guys share!

I recently ordered a block of coco husk to test out in place of the aspen that I had been using previously.

Thew two girls who i put in this new brick of coco now have a couple small mites. I changed them to paper and sprayed them with the repti spray (the non-aerosol bottle) from the pet store. I will re-treat them as indicated on the bottle tomorrow.

I am under the impression that the block came with mites because nothing else changed for those two girls aside from that.

I did some googling and found that this is a normal occurrence with natural substrates.

Has anyone else here experienced this, or was i just unlucky with the bag?

should I break up the rest of the brick and bake it now? or toss it and ditch the coco husk idea?

Thanks in advance and all opinions and suggestions are appreciated!