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What the heck

Sheezy

Sheezy

Scree!
A couple minutes after I misted my snakes cage, I catch him licking water off of a bit of the tank where I sprayed too close.
His water is perfectly clean.


... what the heck?
 
EDIT:
I just whiped the mist off.
He balled up in the middle of the tank, and starts hissing
hissing with his head buried under most of his body
now he is staring at where the mist was like he is expecting more
 
I'm kinda getting scared now, because he is just sitting there outside of a hide
I know he's alive because he will move and such, but is just sitting outside of a hide
 
Don't worry so much..snakes will do what they want to do..He is probably just staying there cause for the moment that is a good spot for him..and don't worry so much about him drinking the mist off the tank..snakes don't have the mind to know to go to their water bowl..If they are thirsty and come in contact with water at the moment..They take it where they find it..hence is nature..In the wild a snake doesn't have set spot for drinking..It's a wanderer and finds water along the way when it can..
 
As long as the water you sprayed was clean and so on I don't see it matters if he wants to drink it. After all, in the wild they would make use of rain falls and so on. Some types of snake actually prefer to drink sprayed water and won't use a water bowl.

You probably scared him reaching in to wipe the water off, and now he's 'frozen' to wait until the coast is clear. Snakes will often freeze right where they are until danger has passed. He sounds fine to me. :)
 
Sheezy said:
A couple minutes after I misted my snakes cage, I catch him licking water off of a bit of the tank where I sprayed too close.
His water is perfectly clean.


... what the heck?
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For the same reason a dog will drink from the toilet even though it has a perfectly good water bowl...because they can and don't have any hang-up's about it.
 
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