First battle with mites in over 15 years, any advice would be appreciated....!

[snakeman13]

Hey everybody,


I picked up a Pied female from a local show a few weeks ago and appearently she was carrying some baggage. I noticed my bumblebee in the tank below her soaking which is rather unusual and then confirmed there were mites when I smashed one I pulled off of the Pied and it was full of blood. I already have two cans of prevent-a-mite ready to go however I do have a few questions.

I have 8 snakes in this room and want to treat the whole area to make sure the problem goes away. I am aware of removing the snakes, getting rid of all of the substrate and using papertowels and bleaching the caves, but I wasn't sure if I needed to rinse the PAM after treating the enclosures....

Do I just wipe the tanks and spray the PAM and leave it?

How long until I can put the snakes back in the enclosures after using?

How many times do it use the PAM?

Thanks in advance for all help!!!

Joe

hang a Vapona strip in the room. mites gone in a couple weeks.
much easier and no hassles.