I'm battling them right now too. Altho I'm doing things a lot differently from what most people do. I had great success with my method today. Sasha is no longer soaking in her bowl after I moves her from.her old cage. What I did was as soon as I figured I had mites I went out and bought some betadine and soaked her until she wanted out. Which was around 2 hours of soaking. Half of the mites came off her with just that one soak. It only cost me 15 dollars and time. I'm doing another thing completely with my tank as it had 2 layers of substrate but I won my first battle. But the war is still going on