Excessive soaking ball

There are a few reason that can cause ball pythons to soak:

1) mites: If you're seeing black specks in your snakes water dish, then he/she has mites. As mentioned above, white paper towels will help rule this out. If it is mites, do a search on this forum. There are many threads on mite treatment on here.

2) excessive heat/ inadequate humidify. If your snake is soaking and it's not mites, it could be an ambient heat & inadequate humidity issue. Both can be monitored carefully monitored with a proper thermometer/hydrometer combo. They are inexpensive and are a must have. I use a temp gun in conjunction with the thermometer.

2) too large of a meal: depending on the size of prey you're offering, some snakes so soak after a meal. Solution, feed a smaller, more suitable prey item.

Ball pythons are not a species that would soak normally (unlike an anaconda). So I'm really suspicious when I see a ball python soaking excessively.


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