Quote Originally Posted by artgecko View Post
Sounds like everything was covered. I usually pre-treat paper towels with pam and have them already in my quarantine setups just in case.

I would suggest that you go ahead and pre-treat some paper towels in a well ventilated area (I do this on my screened in porch) so that you have a supply of already treated, dry, paper towels to replace your current ones when the snakes soil their cages. The PAM is good for two weeks, so you can treat some, say on the weekend, and have them still be good for the following week.

I would continue the PAM-treated substrate regimen for at least 1 month...maybe 2 even if you see no visible mites.

Good luck! Mites are no fun. I've had an ongoing battle with them due to some (apparent) mite eggs on cork bark.. persistence is your only weapon..If you can keep up your routine for ~1-2 months and be consistent, you should be able to win.
Thank you, that's a very good point. I actually did pre-treat several sets of paper towels with PAM and left those at the family house with BP #2, so they would already have those prepped in case substrate needed to be changed for pee/poop clean-up before I am back this coming weekend. If the pre-treated towels are still good for up to 2 weeks out, then I'll prep a larger supply of them both there and at my apartment. For ventilated areas, the family home has an outdoor patio area, and my apartment, though on the 4th floor, has a serviceable little balcony I've been using for this purpose.

Thank you for the well-wishing, and best of luck to you as well. That's really unfortunate about the cork bark - with such porous and uneven material and with mite eggs being so tiny, there's probably no way you could have detected that until the mites already started hatching. As you say, I may also go with continuing to PAM-treat at least the paper towel substrate for 2 full months rather than 1, for both snakes, just to really err on the safe side.