I'm a new ball python owner and I've had these two females for over 6 weeks (got them on Dec. 6, 2020) and today I saw this (see attached photos) floating in the water bowl of my enchi female. I fished it out and took the photos linked below. I assumed they were mites but I thought that mites were black and more round and in the close up/zoomed in photo it looks kind of white/clear. Any thoughts on what this could be? There was also a tiny bug on the side of my clown female's bowl as well but without thinking I washed it away and didn't take a picture. However, I'm sure it was the same kind of bug as the one I did take photos of. The fact that there were two, one in each of their enclosures, makes me even more worried that it's mites. I checked both of my females as thoroughly as possible including popping them and looking in their vent, around their eyes and heat pits, their bellies, and underneath their chins in the slit (I used my thumb to lightly pull it open a little bit). I also held them and ran my hands on their sides and back and checked my hands. After all of this I saw nothing. But since they are an enchi and a clown, they have a lot of black scales on their bodies, including around their eyes and heat pits so I think it would be hard to see any mites there. Also, they are on paper towels as a substrate and I haven't seen any sign of mites or whatever this insect is in the past 6 weeks I've had them. I change their water bowls every other day and I handle them almost every day (except around feeding day of course) I know I can soak them to see if any mites come off but I also know that most ball pythons don't really like to be soaked so since I was able to get photos, I wanted to ask you all first before putting them through a potentially unnecessary soak. Please let me know what you guys think, I'm really hoping it's a wood mite or something!
The first picture is the original and to show how small it is (it's that tiny speck almost right in the middle between my two fingers) and the second is just a cropped zoomed in version of the first.
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