Opinions on EcoEarth substrate

[Zincubus]

I just switched from zoo med forest floor (cypress mulch) to zoo med eco earth (coconut fiber) and have slightly better humidity retentionin an exo terra cage. A bit more messy but think I prefer the way it looks so likely will be combining until I use up the cypress… throwing in a little dampened sphagnummoss has also helped increase humidity.

My only concern is reading some reviews that stated they got snake mites in the aforementioned substrates? I hope that’s not the case with zoo med bedding… I’m buying from Amazon versus a pet store and haven’t seen this (and hoping to not have to treat the substrate first).

I've never quite understood that suggestion of a substrate containing SNAKE mites , how would they get there in the first place PLUS how would they survive without blood ?

I got the impression that any mites brought in to a house were simply ON bags of substrate or whatever has been purchased from a reptile store