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I Suck!!!!!!!!!

Nanci

Nanci

Alien Lover
Nice!!! So I'm going around, spot checking the vivs, and, wait, Choco's water bowl looks weird. I get it out and am horrified to find it bone dry!! With a poo in it!! (Last water bowl check was three days ago, when he was fed. Actually, two and a half!) So I frantically search for Chox, tearing out all his hides and looking under the carpet, sifting through the aspen, and of course, find him in his moist hide, sleepy and confused about being dug out in the middle of the day- not dead from dehydration as I had imagined. He did not gratefully take a big, much-needed drink, either, but swam around a lap underwater then went off to bed. I guess it wasn't empty for long.

I also found a new shed, with a big fresh poo in it. I have apparently totally missed a shed cycle! Now Choco never goes blue, but his dark chocolate belly turns a milk chocolate color, and he goes into hiding. That's how I know he's blue. I think back, and I haven't seen him around so much, lately, and I've been extremely distracted due to personal life events for the past three weeks, (but still!!!!!) but he's been on a five day feeding schedule, so has been out and handled every five days, at least, back to his last shed February 8th. And he's on a 30 day shedding cycle. I just missed it!

He had to have gone blue right around his 3-2 feeding, and I just didn't notice, but how could I have not noticed on the 3-7 feeding, unless he was starting to clear? Come to think of it, I did wake him up on the 7th, he wasn't out.

What a loser. Double loser. Well, I guess I was wrong about him eating when blue...

Nanci
 
Yeah, empty water bowl isn't so good <slaps wrists>, but you knew it hadn't been empty for long. Corns are pretty hardy - Anyone know how long they can go before getting dehydrated?
 
Well, weeks, apparently, when they are lost in a house with no water source. There was a thread somewhere about worst mistakes made with snakes, and dry water bowl was one of them. Apparently a shed can get into the water bowl, too, and wick all the water out into the substrate. My water bowls all have lines near the top from hard water- it deceptively makes it look like that's the water level. But I always take the bowls out and wash and refill when the snake is out feeding, and often in between, too. I thought I was really, really diligent about it.

Nanci
 
You're just lucky you live in the U.S.. In Singapore they'd cane you for a dry water bowl! :grin01:

It happens. Most of my snakes don't get checked on for days and days. A dry water bowl is a rarity, but not infrequently I'll find a bowl of damp aspen from some of my snakes that like to "plow" their aspen. A nice bowl of snake-crap soup is not uncommon either...
 
Maizey's the one that likes to make snake crap soup. I wonder how she'll like her new cage and big water bowl when she moves next week...

Nanci
 
You let one of your snakes water bowls run dry? I can't believe you would do something like that!:eek1:

I've never let my snakes bowls go dry....well except for that one time......oh yeah, and then that other time, but that was it......well, except for.........:grin01:
 
don't worry to much Nanci...i'm sure Choco will forgive you...and plus like you said it didn't seem like it was dry long.
 
Hehehe. Never mind, Nanci - happens to us all sooner or later. I once found a dry water bowl in one of my tanks but no harm was done... the snake didn't rush for a lfe-saving gulp of water so I don't think it had been dry long :grin01:
 
This almost happened to me the other day. There was very little left after a snow day, and I had just refilled it the day previously... guess I put too little in. It's a bigger bowl, blue on the inside, and tough to see the water line. Fortunately I caught it JUST in time.

Yesterday I came home from work to find that my African bullfrog had filled his entire freshly-cleaned-that-AM bowl with coconut substrate, making a "paste" of mud that was exceedinly tough to get out of the nooks and crannies. :bang:
 
I am very disappointed... in myself because I've done this several times, during the summer here it gets pretty bad between the heat and the dryness, so I mist the cages daily and try to check the waters while I misting, but sometimes I'll miss one and they'll go a day or two at most without. I'm working on getting bigger water dishes so I have more leeway though...

Don't stress too much, cause you know you'll be extra diligent from now on...

Jenn
 
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