I just had a brush with mites in my herps, and successfully treated everyone with frontline top spot.
I did lose two babies, but they had other problems as well... but my adult snakes and my beardeds did well... no noticeable effect other than the absence of the mites.
On the older snakes I used two drops from a 1 cc syringe with no needle. I also used one drop on each of my bearded dragon juveniles (9 inch).
On the babies, I used an insulin syringe with a very fine needle, which produced a very tiny droplet that was smaller than the drop I used on the adults.
Results were excellent, in that the mites all disappeared, and none of my herps had noticeable effects of any kind from the application.
