Quote Originally Posted by Shelby View Post
Hm.. that sounds like a lot of mites. Are you sure they are snake mites and not some other sort of bug? If you squish the mites you'll see a bit of blood (from them eating it from the snake) I have heard of the bark beddings having bugs sometimes, but not snake mites usually.

Either way.. to get rid of parasites, the best thing you can get is Provent-a-Mite (you can get it here: http://www.pro-products.com/miteandtemp.html) You spray it on the cage and accessories and it kills mites for 30 days. You don't spray it on the animal though.. but the stuff works great.
Thanks a lot for the help, I'm 95% sure that they are snake mites, they look the same as the other ones that he had and they definitely have blood in them and get larger as they suck it. They're like little tick type critters but definitely NOT ticks. I might have been exaggerating with HUNDREDS, but that's what it seemed like to me and there were a huge amount in a very short time.