When I'm in the middle of a mite crisis (which luckily hasn't happened for a few years now) I only use paper towels as a substrate. Just easier to treat that way and gives them less places to hide. And you don't have to keep throwing out your bedding. Just my own opinion. Probably doesn't matter which way you do it, but it seems to me that simplifies the process.

By the way, what's with the all the mite infestations lately? Glad I'm done taking in any more new snakes for the rest of the year.