Quote Originally Posted by babysnek View Post
I just got a albino black pastel in the mail today, and the breeder said he's 3 weeks old. Once I took him out of the snake bag it was very obvious that he had snake mites. I was going to treat him with the natural chemistry reptile spray, but the directions say to only use on animals 12 weeks and up. I'm at a loss as to how I should treat the mites on this little baby snake, and I currently have one other 8 month old bp and I'm worried he's now at risk for the mites also.
The way I took care of the mites from a rescued balls i got was luke warm water in a plastic tupperware and a drop of dawn soap soak the snake for about fifteen minutes and then I rinsed him in luke warm clean water.I did that twice and all the mites was gone.