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Bathing snakes

Metal_luke666

Metal_luke666

Snake Charmer 666
How often would you recomend to giving snakes a bath and allowing them a quick swim.

Monthly, every 2 months?

Luke
 
Personally, never, unless for a specific need, like mite treatment. I have heard that it's good exercise for gravid females though, to build up muscle tone.
 
Never? Unless they eat something messy, or crawl through poo, or maybe need to lose weight.
 
Some say that you never need to bathe them. I had to soak Butter when he was dehydrated from his RI, and also soaked him when he was having what to me looked like difficulty with a couple sheds.

While all snakes can swim, not all are predesposed to go for a dip. Corns, I understand, usually only get into water to regulate their temps or to try to rid themselves of mites.
 
Multiple times when I'd soak Butter, he'd take that opportunity to poop. So he'd end up getting a bath and a shower (in the sink). Since then, he's pooped in his water dish a couple times, so maybe I accidentally potty trained him.
 
well, i have seen quite a few pictures of snakes having baths and getting little 'swimming lessons' so i wondered if it was something that just certain people did, or something that should be done with all snakes.
 
I bathe my snakes when it looks like they are having a difficult or incomplete shed. After about 10 minutes, the bad shed comes right off--if they haven't worked it off already.

I also give them a quick bath after I have taken them to my classroom to watch off all of the "kid cooties". I'm not sure it's necessary, but it makes me feel better. We always tell kids to wash their hands after handling the snakes, what about the poor snakes?
 
:-offtopic ok I know this is off topic but I was wondering if all Corn Snakes have the knowlege from birth to swim?

Because when I started to soak one of them, he acted as though he didn't know how.

I don't know if this was him just trying to get out, or if he really didn't know how.

Thanks, Butters
 
I believe all snakes are capable of swimming. Yours was probably thrashing about because 1) it didn't like it, 2) it didn't like the water temperature, or 3) it was not normal and was a bit frightened. If the water is only a few inches deep, it'll quickly figure out that it can be still and prop its head above water.
 
I don't give a bath as a regular thing, I only bathe if:

1) The snake is constipated

2) The snake has had an incomplete shed, in which I bathe for 10 minutes, then I get the snake out and let it run through a damp cloth/towel

3) The snake is dehydrated (never had to do this, but it's another reason)

4) Mites (again, never had to do it for this)

If you want to reduce stress, make sure the bath isn't too deep, and make sure the water temperature is similar to the temperature at which the snake was previously at (so if it was on the warm side, make the water about 82F), it makes the transition a lot easier.

All the best

David
 
I put my snow corn in the sink last night and he seemed to enjoy himself. He does a mean Loch Ness Monster impression.
 
MerlinsPop said:
Multiple times when I'd soak Butter, he'd take that opportunity to poop. So he'd end up getting a bath and a shower (in the sink). Since then, he's pooped in his water dish a couple times, so maybe I accidentally potty trained him.
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:roflmao: I laughed out loud reading this one... accidentally potty trained him... that's just hilarious! :roflmao:
 
It is best if the water bowl is big enough that the snake can climb in and soak when he wants. That is all that is necessary. The rest is just entertainment for you and a pain in the neck for the snake (snakes have a very long neck)
 
last night after i fed my snake and put it in its tank.. it went in its hide.. then as soon as i put water in there he climber right in and stayed in there for about 2 min.. im guessing he was a little too warm mayb
 
I use to bathe my big guy every time I handled him because he'd poop on me every time. Apparently, unlike Merlin's Pop's snake, my guy learned NOT to poop when being handled as he doesn't do it anymore and the last time he was in the bathtub, it was for pictures, not a swim :)
 
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