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I bought aspen bedding yesterday and within 12 hours noticed that I had mites on 2 of my snakes ( fortunately the only 2 i used aspen with). I quarantined them in containers and treated them with Reptile Relief as well as sprayed out the cages they had been in. After I clean throughly today I am going to return the snakes on paper towel substrate. What other mite treatments are there out there, and I have heard of a mite prevention that can be added to the animals water? Let me know what action i should take, apparently the worst affected snake is my Sinaloan that is about 16" long. Thanks

Peyton

Reptile Relief works really well in my experience. But also soaking the snake to drown the mites and then using baby oil on their scales to accomplish the same. Ask others about what kind of oil to use, i think it was baby oil i used to use but off the top of my head i cant remember.

Does Reptile Relief seem to work well with cleaning out enclosures? I had each snake in a glass aquarium, which I washed out and then wiped down with Reptile Relief repeatedly.

>>Reptile Relief works really well in my experience. But also soaking the snake to drown the mites and then using baby oil on their scales to accomplish the same. Ask others about what kind of oil to use, i think it was baby oil i used to use but off the top of my head i cant remember.

Baby oil may cause a scale drop in some snakes. Better to use olive oil.
My personal favorite for mites is Provent a Mite.
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Sonya

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