Soaking for no reason?

[thedarkwolf25]

So I just picked up a nice 2 yr old male Cal King from the expo and he is doing good so far. In fact he just shed. What concerns me is that I keep catching him in his water bowl.

His temps are good at 85 and 77 and his humidity is at 36%. I check him for mites and there are none in the water bowl and I didn't see any on him at all. Do Kings just like to soak or could there be a problem that I'm not aware of?

[Alexandra V]

It could still be mites. I had a similar thing happen with my boa - she was soaking, but everything was fine, so I thought she just liked to bathe because I didn't find any mites anywhere. Then, about a month later they're everywhere.

It takes the eggs about a month to hatch, and the eggs are laid under the snakes scales, so they're therefore very hard to spot. My advice is to maybe do a couple mite treatments as preventative medecine and see if he stops soaking, and make sure husbandry is up to par (I don't know a lot about cal king husbandry though, so I can't help you there )

[thedarkwolf25]

I'll pick up a couple cans of PAM (Provent-A-Mite not the cooking spray and give all the enclosures a treatment just in case they may have spread to the other snakes.

[vangarret2000]

I t could be mites so I would keep an eye on that. My king likes to soak sometimes as well. It could be nothing but jsut make sure to keep an eye out in case it is mites. If it is eatting fine that is a good sign(but not a deffinate sign) that there are no mites.

[wilomn]

Soaking while blue is common for CalKings.