Aw man; I feel you. My guys are just over a bout of mites, and I know it just makes you feel like the world's worst person when you see mites on your snakes. Are yours gone? I used preventamite and it really did a good number on those blasted things.
Sorry about your explosion; sounds like you handled it pretty well. I would probably have had a conniption and ran out of the house like a ninny, lol