So over the past few weeks we have used paper towels for substrate and for the first week crumpled newspaper for his hides which he did not seem to mind. We have been treating his tank with reptile spray and him with zoo med mite off. We changed his water dish to one he could not soak in and j have been giving him baths with and without a slight betadine solution for his bites. He seems to be much less stressed out and he has not been constantly trying to soak in the larger water dish that we just reintroduced, but there are still mites though diminished. Our next step ( after extensive research) is to get predator mites because we don't want to use heavy pesticides that we would not use in other animal or our own environment. Thanks again for all the replies as it helped with my research and I will post further progress (hopefully lol) for anyone who has this problem in the future who like us want to use more natural methods of dealing with this problem. Any reply from someone who has used predator mites will be appreciated as well!