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I'm giving Anubis a bath tomorrow so.....

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newsnakeowner1978

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I was wondering. After giving a snake a bath, how do you go about drying them off before placing them back in the tank? Any suggestions?????
 
I guess the question I have is...why do you feel you need to give your snake a bath?

To answer your question, I would let it move through a dry towel.

Regards,
Steve
 
I was plannin on giving him a bath cause a lot of ppl said they do after feeding, they poo in the bath so less to clean in the tank. i was gonna try him with it to see if he likes bath. also read its good exercise. if he dont' like baths then i won't bother but i wanna try him with it to see. and tks for the tip bout the towel ssmith.
 
I think there's only one person here, George (petcornsnake) who used to bathe Damien because he was convinced Damien was constipated and couldn't poo without being bathed, (not true) but I thought he'd been convinced to stop that.

It _is_ true that bathing a snake, or even handling it, will cause it to poo if it has to. Snakes generally find bathing stressful if we impose it on them, although if done often enough, they become accustomed to it- but there is no need.

If you _do_ bathe your snake, make sure it doesn't escape through the overflow holes.

I have a snake that majorly musks every time I handle her, so I rinse her under the faucet and dry her with the kitchen towel, every time I have her out, it seems, and she doesn't care. If anyone else needs to be rinsed off, though, you can see they are frightened.

My snakes have been going through a swimming phase right now where it seems many of them are taking dips in their water bowls. I don't know why.

It _is_ nice when they poo in their bowl- a lot easier to clean up. So you have to check their water a couple times a day.

Nanci
 
I have to give Lupe baths once in a while so that she'll shed properly. She's getting used to it now, but I never dry her off. It's not like she has fur or anything to hold the water in. I just put her back on the warm side, and she takes it from there...
 
Nanci said:
It _is_ true that bathing a snake, or even handling it, will cause it to poo if it has to. Snakes generally find bathing stressful if we impose it on them, although if done often enough, they become accustomed to it- but there is no need.

If you _do_ bathe your snake, make sure it doesn't escape through the overflow holes.
Nanci
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I have a special tub for him. And i will be sitting with him the whole time. I wanna try it out for him. Get him use to it incase he haves bad sheds and etc. But i am not gonna try to stress him out and force him into it. Plus i think it would make great pics.
 
I never understood the whole concept of "I have to bathe this snake"... but if you do, why dry it? I've heard it even rains in the wild...
 
The only time I put my snake in a tub of water is when the tip of his tail was dying. I helped soak it so it would fall off. Other than that...I would never "bathe" my snake. I think it's useless..Unless they musk you ;) Or have trouble getting some shed off.
 
Like most others, the only time I "bathe" my snakes is when they are having trouble with a shed. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen occasionally...especially at work. In the pet shop, we need to have "display lights" on the cages, or else people think they are empty. These lights lower the humidity, and we are left with rough sheds. So I do occasionally soak the snake in a bucket of room temp(or slightly warm) water to aid the shedding process.

But as far as bathing them after they eat to help them poo...I think it's hooie. Unless there is an impaction, in which case a warm bath and gentle palpation can help to loosen the impaction, I just don't think it's even remotely necessary...
 
TrpnBils said:
I never understood the whole concept of "I have to bathe this snake"... but if you do, why dry it? I've heard it even rains in the wild...
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lol, i was wondering bout drying him off casue i didnt' want to get the substrate to wet or something. and i think i heard the same thing bout the wild as you did. guess its true. lol
 
Nanci said:
Just run him through a towel. Aren't you going to keep him out for a while, anyway?

Nanci
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oh yea i kept him out after. he had a few scales left on him from his last shed so i put in the bath and used a q-tip to get it off. then i ran him thru a damp cloth. got the scales off .. whew. and the pet shop told me he had a complete shed. pfft
 
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