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I've got a Carpet Python that likes to soak in his water dish on a regular basis, but tonight when I looked in his dish I saw little black things sitting at the bottom of the water dish. I know alot of snakes will soak to try and drown mites, but when I took him out and examined him, I couldn't find anything. Nothing near his eyes, nothing in his scales, nothing. Nowhere in the cage are eggs or even the silvery dust that they tell you to look for as mite feces. Is there anything else these could be? I changed his water and kept a sample of the old water to show the vet, but in the meantime, can anyone think of something else this could be?

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Take a magnifying glass or microscope to the little black dots you are finding. Also mites tend to hid around the eyes, take a tooth pick and gentlely probe around the eye under the scales and see what you get.