Mites?

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Originally Posted by CRAZY

The temperature is 80 degrees during the day, peaking at 90 occasionally, and it is around 70-75 at night, but he spends his time in the hide on the side with the built in under substrate heater. i have handled him many times scince and no mites have appeared on me.

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correct me if im wrong but from this post it seems like you have a hot side and/or an enclosure ambient temperature that will get to 90 degrees at times and a UTH under the cool side hiding spot. im doubting that the UTH is regulated by a thermostat or even a rheostat and i dont know if you are measuring the temp of the UTH with a digital thermometer meaning the UTH can be extremely hot at this very moment.

if this is the case then the snake has no cool side and may very well be soaking because of the high temperatures on each side.

i may be wrong but it would be a good idea to double check your ambient and basking temperatures and try to create a proper warm and cool side. cool should have no UTH with an ambient of 80-82 and warm should be anywhere from 88-92.

if your humidity is good and he has no mites then he may just be soaking for fun... if not then it may be too hot in there for him so just double check.

I have a built in under tank heater on one side and nothing on the other. I'm not sure if I mentioned before but he did stop soaking a long time ago, 3 and a half months to be exact. There is a heat lamp on the side with the undertank heater, and nothing on the other side, but is still kept warm. I do not have a digital thermometer because I could not find one, and my buget is very low. I do have a thermometer/hygrometer in the center of the tank and the temperatures I gave you were for the center. So one side is hotter by a few degrees and the other side is cooler by a few degrees. I didn;t know about Ball-pythons.net at the time so I would have psted some thing then. But he seems fine now. He went through an RI but recovered with the help of $50 medicine and a $50 'check up.' Any how, i dont see any white dots so i dont think they are there. Thanks for everybodys help.