Questions

[bkhuff1s]

I'll definitely be checking to see if there is any floating mites. The male and female have been housed together since I got them. The males does not show this type of behavior in the least bit...

[Thamnophis]

Indeed some specimen love the water and others do not.
And i have different specimen that hardly get out of the water for months and than suddenly (nothing noticable has changed in their surroundings) keep out of the water for months.
It is not always mites or high temperature or low humidity... we will probably never know why some do this and others don't.