Why has my ball python been soaking for almost a whole day?

Okay, he finally shed today. All is well, thank you all for your input!

Was it in one whole shed cuz that was my thought on it pink belly and soak definitely shed if it ain't mite. Friend of my had mite.. very scarey when I had 5 snakes in my house.

Hello
I have a couple boas that soak all day long but one very special bp thats seems like when she finds her water bowl she soaks for days on end then does not do it for another full month plus some, but if you are even questing that you may have mites..
what i always do is put them on paper towel and remove all the substrate and withing the hour or over night you will see them wandering on the papertowel .. IF THE TOWEL IS CLEAN BY DAY 2 put the substrate back and good to go

Hopefully this helps

Its 99% gonna be mites.... Or you got you a rare pythonfish. They are hard to find sometime on the darker snakes (Or they are for me). They can get deep in the scales and you really cant see them. Pull him/her out of the dish and look on the bottom there should be some floating around in there if it has been in for that period of time. And invest in some good mite repellent. Hopefully that gets the snake out of the dish and back into the hide...

Considering the snake just shed, I'm gonna stick with my original answer... :gj:

OP - Glad to hear the update...

Totally mite free. Yesterday, or the day before,(my new shift at work is playing tricks on my short term memory and internal clock) he just stopped taking prolonged soaks. He hasn't been back in the waterbowl since. Thank goodness it wasn't mites.:please:

I had a smaller water dish in my tank for 3 months I switched it out with way bigger one so he can go all the way under the water since then he just lays in water is this a problem he does not have no mites