Welcome to the forum, afflux!



I've never used the olive oil treatment but have done the similar, soaking, and using a 10% bleach/90% water solution to clean the cage. It works, but it takes some work.



You have to clean the cage every 7 - 10 days for the next few weeks in order to break the mites' lifecycle. You have to use paper for substrate during that time.



Its been a couple of years since I've had a mite problem and I believe that Provent-a-mite hadn't been out very long at the time but I've read many good things about it since then. I will definitely give it a try the next time. Its a lot less work, plus, the sooner you get rid of the mites, the sooner your snake will feel better.



You can place a pan of water large enough for your snake to get completely into & it will usually soak itself, drowning the mites on it, while you're waiting for the Provent-a-mite to be delivered. Be careful not to give any mites a ride to another one of your snake's cages. Dealing with one infestation is bad enough.



Best wishes!

HH
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• introductions and mites - afflux, Thu May 24 03:53:04 2007
• RE: introductions and mites - toddhowudoing, Thu May 24 10:46:11 2007
• RE: introductions and mites - Carmichael, Thu May 24 13:57:50 2007
• RE: introductions and mites - Just_Ders, Thu May 24 20:45:33 2007
• Seriously hope that was sarcasm - toddbecker, Fri May 25 11:51:12 2007
• RE: Seriously hope that was sarcasm - Carmichael, Fri May 25 15:33:34 2007
• RE: Seriously hope that was sarcasm - HappyHillbilly, Mon May 28 08:16:12 2007
• RE: introductions and mites - HappyHillbilly, Fri May 25 03:50:11 2007
• RE: introductions and mites - afflux, Mon May 28 05:51:53 2007
• RE: Provent-a-mite - usshorts, Mon May 28 07:50:44 2007