I have done the soaking, the olive oil treatment, and washed/bleached the cage.



The challenge I have had with soaking lizards is that they hate the water and stand up as tall as they can to avoid their stomachs hitting the water. Also the mites move up farther towards the head when the lizard is put in water. I don't want to add so much water that the lizards are floating. They are juveniles and I don't want to risk drowning them!



We've done the olive oil treatment, it did cause lots of mites to detach but they are still embedded under the scales and can't be picked off even though they are detached.



I have used Black Knight spray on the cage, and waited until it was dry to put the lizards back in. My husband uses it with snakes, he actually fogs a plastic tub with the product and then drops the snake in. So I am wondering if it is safe to do the same thing with lizards and Provent a Mite. The top of their cage is mesh, so there would be more ventilation than there is for snakes who get this method used on them in a plastic box.

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