Quote Originally Posted by Crispy757 View Post
Every time I look the specs I see are never moving. Usually on the belly. Haven't seen anything around the eyes yet.
Don't laugh, at my age (old enough to know better, but still too young to care...) I have a hard time discerning between a mite, a bit of substrate, a piece of scale, etc. on a damp white paper towel after I wipe down my snake for a periodic mite-check.

Fortunately a few years ago my daughter got this for her birthday:
http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Resou...9?s=industrial

I use it more to check for snake mites on a paper towel than she does to look at everything else. The nice thing is I can even see the mites in their pre-adult phases, when they're almost invisible. I've cursed a few times because I saw a black speck, which then later turned out to be nothing.

There are less expensive USB microscopes & magnifiers on the market, but I like this one since it's easy to use and practically indestructible.