I may end up treating for them that way. I just don't have provent a mite locally available to me so I was trying to use something I could just go to the store to get. I have read lots of positive results from the strips but most of them involve basically fumigating a small tub, with the snake inside, with a small piece of the strip. I have read one or two threads on using the strip as a room wide preventative measure so I'm hoping that I will get some effect out of doing something similar. I do like the bleach idea though, it doesn't hurt to be extra safe.