I'M cleaning out jade's tank and treating it for mites, she has em pretty bad, and she has what looks like a tic on her, and its good size too. I tried covering it in vasilene (sp?) to smother it and make it let go, but didn't work, I know you can use lighter but its in a really bad spot to do that. so, how do you remove a tic from a snake?....really have no idea how it even got in there...