I've done a lot of homework on mites... Here's my HC Article:
http://www.herpcenter.com/showthread.php?t=7200
Savannah: at certain stages of development they are more reddish. Adult males are usually smaller and tan while female adults are bigger and black. Also I read somewhere that one of the developing stages only has 6 legs before they morph into the 8 legged adult.
BE CAREFUL with products like Reptile Relief: it says on the bottle "use as often as necessary, but not more than at 3 day intervals" ?!?! I'm so afraid that people just read "As often as necessary" and spray their animal all the time with the stuff.
ONCE ... wait 3 days.... ONCE... wait 3 days. (The easiest is to put on some thin rubber gloves and spray it onto the gloves, then let the snake crawl through your hands and you slowly work it all over its body.)
It's very drying to the snake's skin and tends to give it a dull grey look. (I'm not a big fan of putting insecticides on my animals.)
Good luck. Mites are a pain, but you CAN get rid of them. The hardest thing about getting rid of them is that they spend A LOT of their time NOT feeding on the snake; either mating, laying eggs, molting or looking for more snakes. Your treatment should focus mainly on killing all the mites and eggs in and around your terrarium and snake room. Check the corners carefully and even around the light fixtures... any moist dark crevice. Bleach won't kill mite eggs: you have to scrape them off with a knife and use an insecticide. Just make sure you do not put Pandora back until all the insecticide is rinsed off and the terrarium COMPLETELY aired out.
A few baths and daily box changes will quickly get rid of the ones on Pandora.
But watch your other herps' enclosures carefully. Once Pandora is in quarantine, they'll start looking for your other snakes.
