Does Soaking always = mites?

[cheezeit32]

...Soaking is when the snake purposefully crams itself into the water bowl in order to feel safer or drown mites. I personally don't believe that this species will soak themselves prior to shed but that is just my opinion

example of soaking to kill off mites.

[snakesRkewl]

Is that your example?
Keeping snakes together that have mites?
She wasn't disagreeing about soaking for mites
She is of the opinion they won't soak for shed periods, which I totally disagree with.
I also disagree with keeping snakes in a tank together, but that's another thread

[swe3tm0mentz]

Lucy soaking prior to shed

[Kaorte]

Post pictures all you want but that is not going to change my opinion. If a ball python is provided with a proper environment then it shouldn't need to soak. This is not a blanket statement. It is my opinion based on my personal experience with this species. Maybe the way you keep you snakes makes them feel the need to soak prior to shed. Maybe the overall humidity in your particular climate is lower. All I know is my snakes have never soaked and all have perfect sheds.

[snakesRkewl]

Post pictures all you want but that is not going to change my opinion. If a ball python is provided with a proper environment then it shouldn't need to soak. This is not a blanket statement. It is my opinion based on my personal experience with this species. Maybe the way you keep you snakes makes them feel the need to soak prior to shed. Maybe the overall humidity in your particular climate is lower. All I know is my snakes have never soaked and all have perfect sheds.

This is still a blanket statement made with your experience with 5 ball pythons.
Like people, not all ball pythons do the same things, and or act the same way.
If a ball python is in 50% humidity and lower, and is going into shed, and you provided it a bowl to climb into, many will soak. Maybe yours don't, but you can't say others won't, it's just not true.
If your humidity is like most of my tubs, and closer to 65% to 70% then no, most won't soak.

[swe3tm0mentz]

Post pictures all you want but that is not going to change my opinion. If a ball python is provided with a proper environment then it shouldn't need to soak. This is not a blanket statement. It is my opinion based on my personal experience with this species. Maybe the way you keep you snakes makes them feel the need to soak prior to shed. Maybe the overall humidity in your particular climate is lower. All I know is my snakes have never soaked and all have perfect sheds.

no one said they NEED to soak. you simply stated that you do not believe this species soaks prior to shed. i posted a picture to show you that this species does in fact soak prior to shed. i am not saying YOUR snakes do.. nobody is saying YOUR snakes do... they are saying that they have seen a snake do that. i keep my snakes humidity where it should be, so dont come at me saying that i am doing something wrong. my snake does NOT always soak when she is about to shed, only when she wants to. all snakes are different and frankly they do what they want.. duh. you might have not seen this happen, but i can almost garuntee you havnt seen every snake on this planet prior to when it's about to shed. so by me saying that i think it is wrong for you to say that you dont think this species does... just like you have your opinions.. that is mine.