Wood mites

[MistyC]

So about two months ago I set an incredibly small vivarium (10 gallon) for my incredibly small gecko (mourning gecko)

The plants are doing great, the gecko is doing great.

The problem is that the springtails I purchased, from petco online, seem to have been infested with woodmites.

There are a lot of these annoying mites crawling around the tank, and I thought the springtails all died but I dug a little the other night and found a bunch in the soil. They seem to be avoiding the surface though and even my itty bitty mourning gecko's poops seem to be going mostly untouched by the springtails

I read about the CO2/dry ice method and wonder if that would work for killing the woodmites, and would it kill the spring tails too?

Or, even better, is there some type of invert I could add in that would eat the woodmites? It would also have to not harm my tiny gecko, though.

[OctoberLust]

the dry ice method will kill everything that isnt a plant. if the mites are burrowing you might have to do it long enough for them to come up from the soil for air or whatever.