coastal x diamond hatchy bathing? sitting in water for long periods of time

[Tempest404]

checked for mite, no mites, checked for anything wrong with belly scales, nothing wrong. thermostat is set to 32 in the hot spot (during the day that does tend to be over the whole click clack though) and drops to 27 at night. (need to buy a external timer to kill completely or it's alarm wakes me up when the morning cycle starts if there's more than 5C difference from the set temp and the actual) i have another hatchy from the same clutch next to him, last shed they shed together however the other shed 3 weeks ago and the one in question did show some signs but never truly went opaque and his eyes never went milky. could he be having trouble getting the shed going? maybe the temps too high? should i be worried about anything else? if shedding issues and cause of low humidity (ambient humidity of inner brisbane) how would i increase it?
not having feeding trouble, eats so fast it's freaky.

cheers for any help, if you need more info please just say and i'll put what i can up asap.

I'd add a photo of the click clack but the attachments section appears to be down so i can't link it through sigh

cheers tempest

 

[andynic07]

If your click clack is 32 degrees all over that is too hot and one possible reason for your snake to be sitting in the water bowl. They may not shed at exactly the same time either. I live in logan and the humidity is fine for my snakes so I would assume that Brisbane would be similar. Can you post some pictures of your snakes as I also have a diamond x coastal.

 

[Tempest404]

also i've heard of diamonds not shedding or growing properly without UV but this kid grows like a mutha, compared to his bro/sis he's grown almost twice as much in the time i've had him. i do have a UV fluro i can try and set over their enclosures if this may help

 

[andynic07]

also i've heard of diamonds not shedding or growing properly without UV but this kid grows like a mutha, compared to his bro/sis he's grown almost twice as much in the time i've had him. i do have a UV fluro i can try and set over their enclosures if this may help

I have never used a UV source with mine and had no problems. Some people say it helps but as far as I can see there is no concrete proof either way.

 

[Tempest404]

enclosure, red heat bulb positioned over the gap between the two click clacks (sitting side by side) heat mats underneath each in the same area across just under half, the mats are on permanently as they don't appear to effect the ambient temps of the enclosures but allow a hot ground section (hides placed for each if they want them) also hides in cool section (though they have a tenancy to chill on the branches in the middle a lot more)

 

[andynic07]

Sometimes if two snakes can see each other like that they may go off there food as well because they are intimidated.

 

[Tempest404]

never had a feeding problem, as soon as the tongue flickers they race across their feeding box to it and grab it, no jiggling required. just waiting on samsung kies to recognise my damn phone, photo's comin

edit: on that note i do feed outside of the enclosure, seperately. a chunk of substrate killed my stimsons, internal injury lead to infect was miss diagnosed , so never EVER taking that risk again