This is a general inquiry really, more than just carpet pythons, etc. But has anyone ever experienced a mite explosion over night? I had a mite issue arise with some new arrivals that had been in QT for a few weeks with no signs. Once I moved them into the new area, they ended up having a few mites show up, I thought it was bad and treated like crazy, but apparently I only had a handful and nothing major and they were cleaned up in no time.

Now I'm sitting here some nearly 4-5 weeks later, and over night I checked on my coastal jag today and as soon as I grabbed her mites fell ALL over my hand in high numbers. She was not in her water, acted no different than normal, and had no signs of irritation. I'm assuming this was extremely recent as yesterday this problem was non-existent.

Ok - got on it - placed her in a tub, sprayed her with reptile relief (worked amazing for killing these punks!) let her sit in there for about 20 minutes while I cleared her cage out, sprayed it with reptile spray (not PAM since I was slightly worried about fumes since I was not moving the cage YET. Substrate went in the garbage, fixtures went in a garbage bag and were sprayed with reptile relief and then PAM and are placed outside till tomorrow when I will bleach and then rinse them. Took the snake out, gave her a nice 88 degree bath and soaked all the dead mites off of her. I then held her body in the water for a little bit to drown any stragglers, that got the better part of the rest, one more light spray with reptile relief, and she went back in the enclosure. Bowl and one hide were sterelized immediately and sprayed with reptile relief (Not the water bowl obviously). And now it's fingers crossed . . .

So has anyone experienced this highly random of an explosion of mites before? I checked my entire collection after I changed clothes and took a shower and moved my clothes to the laundry room, not in that order. The rest of the snakes are AOK. I really want to PAM the entire room and just bag all the snakes up for a few hours tomorrow while it airs out. I have read a lot of different things about using PAM, and some say its OK to use with the snakes in the enclosure . .. many say its not. Then as I was watching BHB's channel, Snake Bytes TV, he as well suggested spraying PAM directly in the enclosure and leave the snake in there. . . Has ANYONE done this and been ok? I am concerned with Jag syndromes showing up after something like that, based on an article wrote by ACReptiles regarding Jag Syndrome and chemicals which trigger the effects. None of my jags or spyders have any wobble or neuro signs and I'd love to keep it that way.

So here we go, what else am I missing? Since this is only the second time in my career to deal with these buggers, let me know. I've read most of the posts, but I'm still curious as apparently something went wrong . . .

I DID visit an exotic store yesterday where mites were HEAVILY present and handled 2 snakes. However, I did NOT handle any of my collection when I arrived home, and it was FAR after the exotic shop that I even made it back to my office to check on animals at 3 AM last night.