I bought a small succulent dish from Home Depo almost three months ago. A couple months later things started dying. I have read everything available to me about succulents on the internet. I was scared at first I would over water so I did not water the dish for almost a month,( I lightly misted once a week) and the elephant bush started to deteriorate. I began to notice a little bit of webbing on the plant when I eventually did water. (after getting help from another forum). However, they just chalked it up to bad watering and said nothing about the webbing. After trying to use good watering habits (once a week) the plant was still deteriorating. I finally I decided it was spider mites when I found many little black creatures living on the webbing. I read from one source those do not like water. So I waited a while and removed the elephant bush from the dish, repotted with new soil, and washed the now leaveless stalks. (and cleaned the old dish with alchol and replanted the one remaining sedum and multiple aloe) The plant began to show signs of new growth. Man did I think I had a green thumb! but now the leaves are withering again, there are almost bite indentions and brown spots on the leaves and the new growth is turning black. I have some Miticide and I have thought long and hard about using it. My succulents are all in shared space under a grow light. I figure if I treat one plant the mites will begin bothering all the others. My Aloe that was in the dish with the elephant bush was unaffected. Two sedums in the dish died. My echeveria from a different nursery in an unrelated pot is unaffected, as is my little sister's cactus, and her succulent arrangement. (her succulent arrangement is from another nursery and has a small blooming cactus, hen and chicks, and sedum). I could treat all these plants not problem, but, I am harvesting some spearmint that I want to use in tea and I do not want to put miticide on that because I am going to eat it. I am at a loss. I do not know if I should treat my elephant bush or just toss it at this point. Maybe I am just crazy but I have seen lots of webbing at the home depot I bought this plant from. I also checked out other posts made about elephant bush dying and they all mention a Lowes or Home Depo. So I am beginning to think that the home depo sells infested plants? Or is it just my bad watering?