Well, we’ve had our baby BP for about 5 or 6 weeks now.
We’ve been meticulous in our husbandry. We monitor temperature gradients and humidity with digital thermometers/hygrometers (I'm constantly checking), change water daily, etc. (Ambient temps range across the tank from 80 to 85 with the substrate temp at around 92 in his hide over the UTH. Humidity around 60).
We treat him like it’s one of our children. My wife talks to it like it’s a baby.

So a week ago we noticed his eyes turn cloudy so we start preparing for his first shed.
I changed the substrate (eco earth coconut stuff) and raised the humidity to around 70.

He started spending quite a bit of time in his water dish around the same time and I thought it was because he was soaking for the shed.

Well, it turns out it was MITES.
We noticed them today on his skin…where did they come from??????
We haven’t handled any other snakes. The substrate was the compressed eco earth stuff. I washed and cooked all the stuff that went in the tank (hides, silk plants, etc).

We got the snake at Petco, so the only thing I can think of is that he has eggs on him when we brought him home.
Is that possible? We never noticed anything until today and we have handled him a lot over the last few weeks.

Anyway, we start reading this forum regarding mite eradication and watching “Youtube” videos on the subject.
Our experience was nothing like the videos or the writings on here.

I don’t know who was traumatized more…my wife or the snake.
As I emptied the tank to give everything a bath in bleach water in the tub, she lightly sprayed some mite stuff on the snake then started to wipe him off with a damp cloth.
Well, I guess he was getting really close to shedding because his skin started peeling off.
So as she’s soaking him in a lukewarm bath, the snake’s skin is peeling, my wife’s wiping it off, and the snake defecates a couple times (maybe from stress??).
Now my wife is freaked out that she’s traumatized the snake.

I washed everything in a bleach bath, rinsed it all off well, then baked it in the oven at 225 for about 1.5 hours.
The snake is back in his tank…very sparse tank, just his 2 hides, water dish and white newsprint for substrate, but he seems to be moving around quite a bit checking things out.

I don’t know what to think, but our experience was not easy…actually a bit of a disaster.

Anyone else have this situation?