Quote Originally Posted by ocean girl View Post
I just had the same problem this week, I phone around and everyone said to get Nix, you know, for human lice. It kills the mites and the eggs and its cheap. There is a video on the net somewhere and it explains how to do it.
Basically what I did was, dumped 1/4 the bottle into a big spray bottle with fresh bottled or distilled water, then sprayed everything in the cage, left it for 20 mins, then wiped it out and did it again including the paper towels that they will be laying on, then you leave it.
I bathed and sprayed my snake in it as well, Diluted of course. Then I put him in the tank un washed.
Don't put his water bowl in untill the next day or when everthing has dryed naturally.
The next day, changes the paper towels and put in fresh ones.
Then I think you repeat the process once a week up to 3 times total.
This is just my first week, but I haven't seen a mite since. But you have to reapeat it next week for sure because you never know if there's an egg lurking around that might hatch.
Provent a mite and the cheap wannabe Nix DO NOT KILL MITE EGGS. It stops the cycle of newly hatched mites from laying eggs. Once they hatch they die before laying more eggs, thus killing off your problem.

Nothing kills the eggs