What is my snake trying to tell me??

[dadofsix]

Soaking in water -- if mites are proven not to be a concern -- often comes from:

• desiring more humidity
• disliking the current hides (too big, wrong temps)
• eating too large of a meal

Check if any of those might be the cause and make sure husbandry changes are made as needed.

Interesting points to consider:

1. Humidity is where it needs to be (though I may bump it up because she's due for a shed).

2. She's been in this terrarium for nearly five months and is almost always found in the jumble of logs and artificial plants that I have placed on the back of the cool side of the tank (though it runs along for a while to the warmer part of the terrarium). As I indicated in my original post, inasmuch as nothing has changed in her habitat, the temps or the humidity, this behavior is a radical departure from her usual behavior.

3. This is the first that I have heard that too large of a meal can drive a snake into water. I am quite interested in the source of that information. Doubly so, in that she went from a (largish) small rat to a (smallish) medium rat a few days before she began manifesting this unusual behavior.

Peace