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Ok so griff seems to be doing better. His belly is no where near as red as it was. I have put the poor bugger in a 10 gallon with the BARE essentials. He has paper towels as a substrate, and a paper bag as a hide, both of which get sprayed down with de flea and thrown out every day. I clean out his tank with deflea instead of bleach...i thought this would be a good plan. Between de flea treatments (every 3 days) he is covered in snake oil once a day. This should sufocate the buggers. I also squirt some in his ears and use a cotton bud to gently wipe out the clever mites that hide in there. He is, needless to say, a miserable bugger presently. I feel so bad, but my fiance keeps telling me that he will feel better soon...and i think that griffon knows that i am helping him. THye are rather smart.

My questions are: Is it safe to put him into his big tank after i get my provent a mite and spray it down? 2) i feel that the mites came from a second hand hide i bought at a reptile expo and didnt bleach *slaps forehead...doh! how real is the threat to my other animals? Can mites climb the glass of a 55g? and 3) how long should i keep up this regimine of deflea and snake oil and disposable hides? How long is the mite's life cycle?

Thanks for reading.

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That sounds scary, putting snake oil on him daily. Why don't you just bleach his cage and all its contents, soak him in water for a few hours to drown all the mites on him and be done with it. Examine him carefuly and with a DULLED needle remove dead mites from between his scales. Then watch carefully for the next few weeks incase you missed some eggs. Make sure that he doesn't come in contact with anything that any other of your herps come in contact with in case the mites have already spread.
He's your BTS and if you want to put all those poisons around him it's your choise though. Oil him daily? Scary!