Retics and water

Hi would love some help with my retic iv seen that mosty they like water and resting in warm water now I'd love to puts a warm water feature my retics viv but whenever I bath him to get a little shed off him or just for fun he gone nuts and just wants out. Now is it that my bathroom is new and scary or that the water is the wrong temp? Is they any way I could help him ease into it or do differently?

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Some really like water, others hate it. Try putting a large un-dumpable container in the enclosure before going all-out with a complex water feature. If your snake takes the occasional swim then fine, you can upgrade. If he never uses it then you know it's not worth installing one.

retics in water can be a normal thing. However keep in mind that . . .

snakes going into their water on their own =/= snakes being placed in water under a stressful move (change of location i.e. enclosure to tub)