Bathing Corns

[Cavesquig]

I've read that corns (all snakes I s'pose) likes to take baths, but I'm a little curious to how many and how often? I see them bathing quite often. (They are the cutest when they both curl up inside the waterdish together and just has there heads popped up over hte surface =)

Now I read somewhere that snakes often found bathing could be a sign of mites, but I've checked them for black spots(?) and can't see anything out of the ordinary.. or so I think, since I'm not really sure what a mite look like. Does anyone have a link to a pic or something like that where mites is clearly shown?

[marisa]

Lots of people do give baths. Its good exercise for the snake, and nice at shed time. But its not a must do. I don't bath my snakes ever unless they have had a bad shed, or have gotten dirty somehow, and neither happens often. When I have done it they haven't liked it one bit. But other people say their snakes don't mind.

Marisa

[reverendsterlin]

All my water dishes are plenty large enough for the snakes to lay in and most do at one time or another.

[gonesnakee]

Snakes should always be provided with a large enough water dish to submerge themselves in when they wish. They also use the water to cool off (ie:thermoregulate) & it is probably also refreshing for them as it is for us. Yes sometimes snakes that soak all the time do so because they are trying to drown mites. Sometimes they soak all the time because they are too hot/dry. If husbandry is correct & no evidence of mites, you should have no worries. Mark I.