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This is going to sound harsh...maybe very harsh but I think you and your friend have both recently made some very bad decisions. If you "can't touch" the snake, then the snake needs a home where he can be properly cared for. Please consider finding an experienced corallus keeper and relocating this animal. If you are anywhere near Georgia, you can drop it off here. Depending on his condition you can probably even take away something in trade. Sorry if I seem like I'm jumping to conclusions here...but from the sound of your post...I can't see any possible way that this snake has a chance of survival long term. They are very delicate and require PERFECT husbandry. I'm also guessing that this animal was likely wild caught. Wild caught emeralds are hard to keep alive even for the very experienced corallus keepers. They have been through a very stressful import process and exposed to all kinds of parasites, avian disease and stress.
As to getting rid of the mites. The best method I have found to actually work involves permetherin spray. It is sold commercially in the pet trade as Provent-a-mite for 20 bucks or so a can or you can get it under many other name brands at wal mart and other places labeled for ues as Lice bedding spray or Tick repelant. Name brands to look for are Repel, Rid or Sawyers...I think there is another one out called Permonone or something like that...at any rate READ the ingredients and make sure there is no DEET and that the active ingredient is .5% permetherin. To treat an arboreal like an emerald you have to do things a bit different. Remove the waterbowl and the perches from the cage. Spray the substrate but DO NOT spray the glass. Wait a couple of hours and put the snake in the cage on the substrate with NO perches or water bowl for 12-24 hours....then return the waterbowl and perches. Do not change the substrate and do not crank up the humidity too much for the next couple of days.
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