Quote Originally Posted by Pythonfriend View Post
use provent-a-mite and follow the instructions to the letter.


apart from that, switch from your regular substrate to white paper towels, that makes it easy to keep it clean and to track the amount of dead mites.

you can give the snake a nice bath in lukewarm water. add a tiny drop of dishwashing fluid, just to break the surface tension and ensure the mites will drown.

dont use anything other than that directly on the snake, especially not toxins/insecticides, its risky and not necessary.

for cage cleaning, just the regular. hot water with diluted bleach, and then more water to remove the bleach.
Thanks for an in-depth response that covers more than what I already found by searching on my own.

I had been using paper towels, but for some reason they somehow manage to defecate or find some other manner of making a mess on them almost daily (slight exaggeration, but you get what I mean), so I had to switch to newspapers because I went through multiple rolls of paper towels in no time (they are in aquariums because I haven't been able to get a rack for them yet, so it used a lot more paper towels than smaller tubs).

When bathing/soaking the snakes, what's the proper protocol on protecting their heads/breathing? One of the smaller mites is on the back of the albino's head (I already got the two off that were on the bottom of his head/lower jaw), so how do I go about cleaning those areas without risking anything?