i had a bad case of mites with my last pick up. i tried the reptile basics reptile releif. yes it worked good but i had a member on another site inform me about using nix. I tried it and it worked amazing. the reptile releif i had the mites come back twice and i was starting to get stressed. i got a 2 oz bottle of nix lice shampoo and mixed it in a gallon of distilled water. i sprayed the snake and the encloser down and have not seen another one since.