Quote Originally Posted by Ascended View Post
The link above is sound and detailed advice. Very interested in the heat treatment, I will try that for housing. The only different l thing I do it the olive oil treatment for all new snakes.

For all new snakes I wipe them down first with a paper towel and some olive oil. This has two advantages for me.
1 it suffocates mites as they breath trough their skin and has a bit more of an ongoing affect than a soak.
2, It also helps them come off into the paper towel, so i can more easily see if there are any adult stage mites present.

If there are adult stage mites present I would probably use frontline, but there has not been yet.

Mites or not I then treat the tubs similarly to the link above, but the products in the UK have different names sometimes. I use ardap spray. This product is supposed to work for 6 weeks.
I treat the tubs, then put paper in and treat that. (all with a lid on) then air it for 15 mins. As the link above, I don't let it near the snakes for 24 hours and a further airing. after which time I will add a water bowl.

That's my process. if I ever got an infestation later after all quarantine was over and the adap spray had worn off, I would use predator mites.

This is just what I do and not advice. do your own research. Except for the olive oil thing which has almost no risk.
Recommend you stop using any sort of oil on snakes! It tends to mess up future sheds​. That's why just a drop or 2 of Dawn or Ivory dish-soap liquid in a shallow, luke-warm water soak is better: it drowns the mites but it also rinsed away, causing no shed problems for the snake.