My corn may have mites

[BurmesePythons!]

Snake mites look like little black grains of pepper which hide in the scales on the snake and move when you . If your snake has mites I recommend looking for them in the heat pits of your snake between the scales. You have to move the scales forward though, or else you can't see them. Also, try taking your snake out of his/her cage and putting some olive oil on it. Don't put enough so that the snake is soaking, just a bit. This will kill the mites on the snake if there are any and you will be able to manually remove them. Even if you do this though, you're going to have to clean out the cage completely, preferably use some prevent a mite or something and use new substrate. Put any logs and hides in the oven at a high temp for a bit to kill any mites on that. If you find even one mite, theres probably 50 and they are laying eggs on your snake or on the substrate, so you have to do this ASAP. let me know if this works and if you have any other questions.

[Tsubaki]

Originally Posted by BurmesePythons!

Also, try taking your snake out of his/her cage and putting some olive oil on it. Don't put enough so that the snake is soaking, just a bit..

This is risky, especially if the snake is in shed. Overdoing oils on a snakes scales could leave it unable to shed, shared a video about if before but can't seem to find it right now. About a boa who had multiple layers of shed skin due to oil being used to treat mites. I just woulndt risk it, predatory mites are always a safe option.