new BP soaking in water for entire day.

[Timelugia]

hey there so I have this new BP (his name's Godric) that I adopted from what I now realize was extremely unfit conditions. he never had any humidity, his food was too small and not frequent enough, and his temperature was never high enough. despite all that he was always a well tempered snake in those days. So I've been paying attention to how he's been acting since aquiring him and changing his entire habitat. it often seems like he sticks to the cooler areas of his tank. I figured maybe he was used to cooler temps than what he was supposed to be getting so maybe that had something to do with it. either way he had the option to go to the other side where it's 90f. so anyway what I'm now concerned about is the fact that he's now spent about 20 hours soaking in his water. I looked it up and read that he might be about to shed. would staying in water this long be a possible sign of that?

If he's soaking in the water it could be he's too hot or he may have mites. What are you using to measure heat? Do you have a thermostat on your heat source? What is the temperature on the cool side? I've never really heard of a ball python soaking itself before shed.
Good job on saving the little guy