I have a young male ball..about 415g...that is CONSTANTLY soaking in his water bowl.. He is in the same rack system, getting the same heat/care as the other 13 ball pythons around him. Everyone else is acting quite normally..
All the other snakes around him are acting normally, breeding, eating (some have slacked off with the onset of breeding), etc...As I have lowered temps slightly for breeding, many of the non-breeding and breeding snakes are still seeking the warm side in their tubs. He, on the other hand, constantly balls up in his water, which is on the cold side of the tub. He just started doing this a few weeks ago. Before this, he would stay in his warm hide, and was eating EVERY time I offered him any type of food.
After the cold scare...(you can read about the details in my "Close call with Mojave" post..http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...e+call+mojave) he has stopped eating as well. He was doing this constant soaking BEFORE the cold scare...that was one thing that made the situation worse...instead of staying on his heat like the others...he was curled up in the coldest possible place...his water bowl on the cold side of his tub.
Since I monitored him for a couple weeks and put him back in his tub..he has continued to curl up in his water...I will pull him out sometimes, convince him to move on into one of his hides only to come back a few hours later and find him back in the water. Any ideas? Maybe time for the vet?
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