i personally have never dealt with mites but from everything ive read and reading your situation, it sounds like you're in for 30 days of heck.
paper towels are to monitor the mite outbreak so you can see what you're dealing with. substrate will just complicate the process.
you must ensure adults, babies and eggs are dead, and as SDA mentioned above, the lifecycle is about 30 days, which means you're not just treating what you see, to need to kill what you don't see as well.
good luck. this will be a tough battle, friend.
QUARANTINE. ALWAYS. QUARANTINE.
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