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I know what you're thinking. It's not mites, lol. I swear ever since moving my cages into their own room I've had nothing but headaches with keeping the temp/humidity stable. During the winter it's always a challenge to keep the ambient temps up but getting a radiant heater solved that issue. Now that we're heading into summer I have the opposite problem of the room getting too warm. Usually with a fan in the window I can keep it in the low 80's which fine. Although if we have a super hot summer I may have to throw an AC into that room. But the last few months a few of my snakes have gotten into the habit of hanging out in their water bowls. They don't have mites and the humidity is good in all their cages. If anything I worry about the humidity getting too high because that room is all kinds of stuffy. I've noticed this behavior in three snakes, Jungle Carpet Python, Blood Python, and a BCI. They're in the same Pro-Line cage stack. Humidity in all their cages is around 65-70%. If they tip over their water bowl or get a bunch of water on the substrate it will easily jump up to 90% but this is more of an issue with the ones I keep in tubs.
I'm not all that worried about it because they move out often enough that they're not getting scale rot or anything. They still shed and eat just find. I just find it odd. I i thought maybe they just liked the tight fit of the water bowl because some of them are in-between sizes for their hides. So I changed their hides around and put some smaller ones in their cages and they still just hang out in the water bowl. Although as I type this I wonder if it's something to do with that cage stack because it's only the ones in this cage stack that are doing this. But it doesn't make sense, usually snakes will do this if the humidity is too low and I tend to have the opposite problem of it being too high and they don't have mites. Maybe they're just doing this to mess with me. Anybody else have snakes that just like to hang out in water?
I'm not all that worried about it because they move out often enough that they're not getting scale rot or anything. They still shed and eat just find. I just find it odd. I i thought maybe they just liked the tight fit of the water bowl because some of them are in-between sizes for their hides. So I changed their hides around and put some smaller ones in their cages and they still just hang out in the water bowl. Although as I type this I wonder if it's something to do with that cage stack because it's only the ones in this cage stack that are doing this. But it doesn't make sense, usually snakes will do this if the humidity is too low and I tend to have the opposite problem of it being too high and they don't have mites. Maybe they're just doing this to mess with me. Anybody else have snakes that just like to hang out in water?
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