So this is more of me wanting some insight on this behavior rather than being totally concerned about it.
Recently, my female ball python has been showing some odd behavior and I'm just curious as to why she does it. For the past few days she's been burrowing underneath her water dish and just sitting there with her head resting on her rock. I helped her out the first time thinking that she had gotten herself stuck under there but I came home later that day to see that she had wiggled her way back under. So I'm assuming she is able to get out just fine on her own.
I wanted to see if it was just a one time thing where she got under there accidently by just doing general snake things. So I dug the water dish deeper into her substrate and I watched her burrow and wiggle her way back underneath it again. I don't know why she is so persistent to get underneath her water dish! Her heating pad is on the other side of the cage under her hide, so I can't see the benefit of her wiggling under there.
I am going to note that she's been on a feeding strike the last two weeks, but she isn't losing any weight, she simply just not interested in food at the moment. I thought I'd add that in here although I wouldn't see how her feeding strike would alter her behavior this much.
Here are a few pictures of her just hanging out under her water dish:
Does anybody have any insight on why she could be acting like this or does she just simple like being under her water dish?
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