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Need some help. I have tried everything to get rid of them.

I've allowed the snake to soak in a tub of water while I cleaned the cage and used provent-a-mite and switched only to paper towels. Removed all accessories from the cage except for one rock hide and plastic water bowl.

No luck.

Tried again with mite-off.

No luck.

They just will not go away. Any suggestions?

Go to walmart and get a box of Nix, it's lice treatment. There will be two bottles inside, both 59ml each. Dump one whole 59ml bottle inside a gallon of distilled water and shake the hell out of it since the Nix is thick. Fill up an unused spray bottle and go to work on the cage and surrounding areas. It's even good for spraying the snake themselves, even on the head. I used this formula when I had literally THOUSANDS of mites at once. Got rid of every mite over the weekend. You won't be disappointed.
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Never heard of that method, but definitely sounds like it will work. When he says everything in the immediate vicinity of the cage then that means basically the cage, the top top to the cage, all accessories inside and out, the stand it's on and anything that is on the stand. I hate mites. Sometimes b4 cleaning I stood there and popped some just to get revenge. Thanks for the info on the Nix solution. I would have never thought of that.

What are the best preventative measures for mites (I use aspen)? I don't have them at this time and I want to keep it that way. I've had them with snakes in the past and they can be a nightmare.

How do you keep from getting mites? One, quarantine everything for 30 days! Two, buy frozen feeders or if you must use live check out the reptiles where you buy your rodents if the reptiles have mites use a different supplier as mites are species specific but will hitch a ride on anything.

As for the OP make sure you spray the carpet or floor around the snake room as mites can and will travel away from the death cloud and return once its gone.... be diligent its a hard war to win... soak every few days and after the snakes are done soaking but olive oil on their eyes to suffocate the mites in their eye sockets. Good luck!
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Mites are almost the same level as roaches and fleas. Sometimes you think you got 'em all, but it just takes one survivor and you have to go through it all again. It's bad when you dream your snakes have mites, but you don't have a ball python to your name yet. LoL.

Thanks for all the replies. I'll keep at it and make a run to wal-mart and see how it turns out.

The way I deal with mites is with PRovent a Mite...I spray all cages with it (with animal and waterbowl removed, and the hides) Let it dry, then place in paper towel, hides and snake, and water bowl. I repeat the treatment every month for 2-3 months, more if necessary (I only needed to do it for three months, haven't seen any mite since, and its been over 5 years).

Every new animal gets placed into a cage that has been treated with Provent a Mite. As I live in a small one bedroom apartment, very hard to complete quarantine any new snake, but I do my best by keeping my new additions in a different room.

I breed my own rodents and I don't buy my shavings at the same place I buy my snakes. (mostly due to it being far cheaper to buy a huge bag of aspen at the feed/seed store than it is to buy the same size bag at a pet store (even if they carried it.) or even the reptile show (its a few bucks more).
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