It has finally happened. The snake mite has somehow finally made it's way to my snakeroom. I am very upset!!! I always treat for and check for mites on new additions!!! I found them last night in one of my tubs that is house two baby checkered's and my baby florida blue. I spotted them because the checkered are albino. I freaked. I checked all of my other snakes, tore through everyone's bedding, and sure enough... I found some in a few other cages and on a couple of random snakes. Not heavily, but there is at least one instance on every side of the snake room which means that without a doubt there could be a mite anywhere in that room. I have put together a plan of action to eradicate these horrible, evil, vile, no-good, pointless existance explode when you smoosh them little wretches!!! And I wanted to know if this is going to be an effective and safe treatment. I own almost 70 snakes, so I have to overkill and be extremely thorough because I have to rid them for good!

1) I have ordered BK-II snake mite spray from pro-exotics. This is a pesticide that is formulated specifically to kill snake mites and is used by spraying inside a clean enclosure with no water bowl and placing the snake in for an hour or so. All mites on the snake should be dead at that point.

2) I am going to remove every living snake and egg from the snake room. I am going to take all water bowls and leave them to soak in a bleach solution. I will empty all cages of their substrate, vacuum every inch of every cage and part of the room I can. I will them wipe all cages down with a bleach solution, and set all of my rack's tubs out onto the floor, leaving them with their lids off. All cages will be open also.

3) At this point, I am going to bomb the room with a "flea bomb". This emits a mist/fog that will fill the entire room and kill any creepy crawly within it.

4) After the bomb is done... I'll wash and wipe down all the cages to remove any unseen residue from the bomb. after that I will put down newspaper as a temporary substrate. The snakes will each first get a washing under the faucet with a toothbrush to manually rid any mites I may spot. Then I will place the snakes back into their enclosures (with no water bowls) and treat them all with the BK-II snake mite killer. After that, they get their water bowls back and a secondary precautionary treatment within a few days.


is this a good strategy to remove the pimples of my snake room?!?!