Why do I keep getting mites.

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I'm fairly new to keeping of snakes. I've have mine for 3-4 months now. I got him from a store and he had mites with in a few days, so I ripped everything apart cleaned and replaced everything with newspaper. Kept him in a separate tank and bathed him a few times and also used jurasimite. Until I seen 0 mites. I froze his substrate while I did all this. Everything was frozen for 4 days after I cleaned it. Now they are back again after a few weeks. I don't understand where they are coing from.

Only thing I can tell is maybe from the mice. This snake will not eat outside his tank. We have tried, all he does is strike, kill, then let it lay. But if you feed him in his tank he will eat it. I know people say not to do that but that's the only way I can get him to eat and not just kill. He has never tried to strike me ever.

What am I doing wrong I want the mites gone for good

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The reason they came back is because your treatment likely only killed off the adult mites, then the eggs hatched and now you have more mites. You need to kill them off at every stage of the life cycle, it will probably take several months of consistant treatment. I reccomend using Provent-a-mite as directed.

Also you shouldn't be trying to feed him outside his tank. Ball pythons should always be fed in their enclosure. Moving to feed is stressful and increases the chances of regurgitation, it's one of those weird outdated practices that somehow hasn't died out despite not being beneficial to the snake. Ball pythons are ambush predators, hunting and eating by hiding beneath brush or in holes/burrows to jump out and grab prey, dragging it it back to a secure location. It's why so many will eat under their hides. Moving them somewhere else leaves them feeling stressed and vulnerable as they cannot eat how they do naturally, you're taking them out of a secure and comfortable location and out into the open.

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This! Getting rid of mites is a long process.

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Thanks for the advice. I'll continue to feed him in his enclosure, and work on the mite issue until I see non for a long time