Quote Originally Posted by Beauty the BP
A long soak in warm water, and after rub veg oil the full length of the snakes body. Sufficates the mites. After 24 hours you can wash her well and do the same in a couple of days. This should get rid of the little buggies in short order.

Regards,
Beauty the BP
No, the veg oil thing is not necessary as water drowns mites just as efficiently as oil does. Putting oil on a snake is just, well, not needed and will probably just stress them out.

The method you desribe above in no way does anything to erradicate a mite infestation. Vegetable oil does not kill mite eggs or larve. I don't know where you got this information from, but please do not spread this info around as it does not work. I realize that this method is an "old skool" mite remedy, but this hobby has come a long way, and with products like Provent-a-mite readily available, there's no reason to spread that kind of mis-information.