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I got a BRB about two weeks ago. 5' male. He seems healthy and was very tame the couple times I handled him. I feed him a rat F/T and left him for a couple days. Since then, 1 week ago, he has been in his water bowl everytime I check on him. Is this normal? Also when I tried to pick him up out of the water bowl tonite, he hissed at me. Never experienced that before. He does have a warm and cool side hide and the water is in the middle. Cool side 75 and warm from 85-88. Humidity is usually 85-90%. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks

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Rocket,
. Albinoman is prolly right. BRBs do often spend several days soaking. You should check very carefully for mites though. A snake with mites will often soak and leave dead mites in the water where they are easy to see if you look for them.
Jeff

>>I got a BRB about two weeks ago. 5' male. He seems healthy and was very tame the couple times I handled him. I feed him a rat F/T and left him for a couple days. Since then, 1 week ago, he has been in his water bowl everytime I check on him. Is this normal? Also when I tried to pick him up out of the water bowl tonite, he hissed at me. Never experienced that before. He does have a warm and cool side hide and the water is in the middle. Cool side 75 and warm from 85-88. Humidity is usually 85-90%. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks

Could it possibly be preparing to shed?? Has it's eyes turned cloudy? Just a thought.

I don't know about you guys, but I notice my BRBs in the water often. Perhaps I just use very comfortable water dishes.

mine did when she soaked all of the time and was a little touchy. If I were you, I would go ahead and do a mite treatment on him. BRB's require good humidity, but if you already have that taken care of - then he shouldn't be soaking that much.

I will check for mites. Good Thought. As far as shedding goes, its last shed was about a month and half ago according to the person I got him from. Doesn't look milky at all. Thanks guys.

When I got home today he was definitely milky. Gonna shed! Thanks to everyone for your help. Now I know what to do for mites.