Hello there. I am a new owner of 2 female BPs. I posted a thread a few days ago about one of my snakes reaching for the ceiling. But she seems to have adjusted to her new enclosure and destressed.
But, unfortunately I have a mite issue with the other snake. I noticed that on her active hours around 7pm-10pm, I would find her completely soaking her body in the water dish. For the first two days I let her soak for a while just in case of mites and indeed I found just a single mite on her water dish after the soak on night 1, and also a single mite on night 2. So I threw away all substrate and disinfected the enclosure and all of the hides, then replaced the substrate with paper towel.
Yesterday was night 3 and I still found her soaking in the water dish and found even more mites. So i decided to put a few drops of dish soap on the water dish after letting her soak in plain water for a while so she wouldnt get deydrated and drink the diluted soap water. But when she was soaking in the soap water, I saw her put her whole head inside the water a few times. Just in case she drank some unintentionally or the soap water came in contact with her eyes. Would this cause any issue? Anyway I rinsed her with plain water after. But i am just worried about the few times she soaked her whole head in diluted the soap water.
As for a permanent fix, I am waiting for a shipment of Taurrus predatory mites from the UK, should be her in a couple of days.
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