So I started going through all my tubs twice a day to check for mites, none at all in the last few checks, I may have finally wiped them out! And all of the red and brown spots on my pieds are almost completely gone now and they are a beautiful bright white color. I'm amazed that with just 17 snakes I have at least 2-3 (or more) snakes going to the bathroom in my twice a day checks and have to change out the paper towels. It really shows up on the towels and stinks much worse than aspen or cypress mulch. My snakes have totally mellowed out too, it's so amazing, I can reach in and pick up my baby black and white king snake and he is as tame as a puppy dog. A couple weeks ago he was so scared of me he would musk and pee on me, no so anymore!

I've also put a cup of water in each ball python tub today and it's really keeping the humidity up and my snakes look even better, it's way quicker than spraying the tubs with a spray bottle. I think a cup is too much, tomorrow I'm going to cut it down to 3/4 of a cup. I sure enjoy my snakes a lot more checking on them twice a day, and it seems to be much less labor, only takes me a few minutes every day compared to a whole rack of messy tubs once a week. And the snakes love it since they get clean paper towels soon after they mess them up. Plus I just love their new attitudes!