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I'll try to keep the story short: About 4 months ago I found my 2 year old IJCP soaking in his water bowl. After careful inspection I found mites. In a little 10 hour ordeal I sterilized all snake cages and funiture and treated the IJCP and the only other snake in the same room with Black Knight. I treated all other snake cages with prevent-a-mite ( one kingsnake developed neurotoxicity but recovered and a green snake died). I treated one intensive treatment followed by 2 more weekly foggings followed by a fourth treatment in a month. About 3 weeks ago I again found the snake soaking. I again cleaned the cage but this time used the prevent-a-mite and did two sraying 2 weeks apart (AND treated all of the other cages with prevent-amite) The snake looks OK, I see no mites and he is no longer soaking BUT he is also not eating (I discoverd the second problem right after a shed -so it has been about 6 weeks) I figured that he was stressed by the mites and the treatment but I am getting a little worried (and also very,very tired or this mite problem -it has ended the joy of my snake collection). Any ideas?

I am no expert but I used Prevent -0- Mite to get rid of the mites on my JCP. I didn't have that big a problem and they didn't spread to my others.
There is a web site called... www.vpi.com
It has some good info on the war against mites.
Sounds to me like you are over doing it with the pesticides to get rid of the mites.
When I treated my JCP I tore apart her whole cage. Threw out her supstrate and the piece of cork bark, which is where I think the mites came from. Then sprayed her tank down with Prevent o mite. All the while I had my snake soaking in cooking oil to drown off the mites that were on her. I have heard water won't drown them becasue it can't get right under the scales.
After letting her tank air out I just used newspaper for substrate till I was sure there were no more mites.
This worked for me but I only had one snake with mites.