BP Keeps Soaking in His Water Bowl

[Bogertophis]

Thanks Bogert. I have him on newspaper now so I can change it very often, and all that's left in the enclosure is his water bowl and hide. I read on some other forums that people use dawn soap mixed with water and rub it into the snakes scales and that it is very effective. They said dawn is safer than other brands because it is used to treat and clean a variety of animals.

Newspaper is fine (just harder to see mites compared to plain white paper), & Dawn is fine as well. It's very sudsy & used to clean wildlife when they get into oil (petroleum), but I'm not sure mites will drown if they can still hang onto the snake's scales? Personally, I'd still use a bath with water, but they might smother the other way too, I'm not sure.