Originally Posted by broadude
Coat the animal in mineral oil?I would not recommend this as a treatment, my experience when following this advice as a noob was that it caused my snake to shed scales ONE BY ONE, it was a nasty mess, stressful for the snake and completely unnecessary (I was helping her shed, I have never had mites).
The PAM solution works effectively and continues working for a period of time, which means that it continues killing mites without daily treatments.
Someone mentioned "pretreating any new arrival." I am sure they misspoke and meant to "pretreat any new enclosure/substrate." I suggest that no one ever spray PAM on any snake, as it is toxic.
Good luck to the OP getting rid of the suckers.
You are right it does create a mess, however when a snake is hit with mites, especially hit hard, then the snake sheds anyways. I use this treatment and beyond the mess I have never had to retreat, it stays on for awhile and will suffocate all external parasite. to include any eggs. Now I know that mites will not usually lay eggs on the snakes but I have seen it before, I have seen eggs on the snakes, rare yes but possible. I guess the way i look at it is either clean a mess and kill anything that will hurt your animal, or hurt the animal. This is not a daily treatment. Its a one time treatment.
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