I've been watching like a hawk for them to come back. I went through all the tubs again today and cleaned the ones with poop and sprayed the ones that were dry, no mites at all that I could see in any of the tubs, and the ones that I cleaned out I wiped them down with reptile spray, then with water to rinse and dry them before adding paper towels. I'll continue to go through them every couple days and spot clean. I'm betting that I got them all but you never know... If I even see one mite I'll scrub down the whole rack again. It's very dry here in Colorado so they say the mites can dry out and die a bit easier than humid climates. After two days my balled up soaking wet paper towels in the tubs are completely dried out. I'll be sure to let you know if I see them come back. The red spots on the snake that was infested the most are slowly going away.
Once I get to the point where I have more than about 20 snakes and just one rack I'd probably consider PAM. For multiple racks with hundreds of snakes there's probably no other way to do it than to gas your whole room with something like PAM.
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