Also thought I'd add, I don't know if you thought that the rodents may have been carrying the mites or not, but if they were, they were just hitching a ride. Reptile mites and rodent mites are not the same, and reptile mites won't survive on a rodent for long. I have asked several folks about this in the past, out of curiousity since mites are so hard to get rid of sometimes, and that was the response I got. They, and their eggs, can travel on virtually anything of course. I just thought I'd throw it out there so you know, generally, that you don't have to worry about mites on feeders... which is a good thing!

Also, I use Provent-a-mite as a general mite eradicator and when I'm cleaning I use it on my cages as a preventative now... to avoid potential infestations later on. So in my case, I'd wait until they were separated (not courting or copulating) and remove them and the water bowl to spray the cage down very lightly with a mite killer (I like to do it during cleaning before adding bedding when I am concerned for the condition of the snake); then replace them and the water bowl after the spray has dried and fumes disapated. Other folks use Black Knight II or Equate bedding spray which I hear works well. For the most part though, if you can do what Lar M mentioned in the above post, that would (as he said) be less toxic and preferable with boas in a possibly gravid state if you are worried about any after or side effects.

Good luck! I hate mites....
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Steph S.

Boas...

1.1 Albino boas (Loki & Hope)

1.4 07 Het. albino boas (Petty & Lady,Sierra,Madeline,Lola)

0.1 Reverse stripe poss. het albino (Cookie)

0.1 Salmon/hypo (Scarlet)

0.1 Anery poss. het snow (Missy)

1.0 Anery (Reno)

1.0 Probable Super Salmontine(Kahn)

0.1 Salmontine (Sonya)

1.1 DH Sunglow (Gabrielle and Bonnie)

1.0 Hypo het anery (Don Juan)

1.1 07 Hypo pos. triple hets (Rico Suave & Pumpkin)

1.0.1 Het. Anery (Guy & ?)

0.1 2007 Mostly striped boa (Andromeda)

0.3 Normals (Ophelia, Sasha, & Lulu)

1.0 Surinames (Solomon & Surreal(deceased)

1.3 Hog Isles (Mr.Orange & Peaches, Tang, Isis)

0.0.1 Central American (Sassy)

1.0 ATB (Satan... seriously!)

Pythons...

2.1 GTPs (B., Monty & Jewel)

0.0.3 BPs (MJ, Precious, Houdini)

1.2 Carpet Pythons (Jackson, Charlotte, & Cassandra)

0.1 Blood python (Akaia)

1.2 Children's Pythons (Spot, Freckle and Speckle)

Misc.

1.1 Mandarin Ratsnakes (Jack & Jill)

1.0 Boxer/Pitt Mutt (Tyson)

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