I noticed my snake was soaking in his water dish a lot, which he normally didn't do, and that's when I found out he had mites. If he gets mites again, I'm not even going to bother soaking him. After all the stuff I went through to get rid of the mites, it is just another pointless step that didn't really do anything for my snake. I'm just going to bust out the PAM and let it do the job for me.