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Swimming In The Water Dish

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CaseyUndead

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Today when i put my snake back into his tank after handling him, he slithered around, took a drink... then he put his head under the water and sort of swam around(but just with the front half of his body, the back half was out of the bowl). Then he would put his head halfway out and peek up at me, swim around some more, come up and take a drink.. Then he just slithered off to the other side of the tank.

This is the first time i'd seen him do this, and it was so cute. Anyone else's corn try to swim in their water bowl?
 
Ya, mine do. I guess it is just refreshing to them. Also cleans them. Kind of like taking a shower.
 
While I've never had a corn swim around in it's water bowl, I would see them go into and lay in them from time to time.

When I lived in Southern California and our house would hit over 100 degrees, all my snakes would be sitting in the water bowls trying to keep cool. Other times it always seemed to be a pre-shed activity if that particular snake might have felt it needed extra moisture for a particularly dry skin.

Lately I've been seeing my new baby "normal" corn being more interested in the water bowl than my snow corn or baby kingsnakes. He'll cruise from one end right through the water (not over it) and out the next, He's done this numerous times, even after having shed. I'm not sure why hey does it, but he seems to enjoy it :)
 
I think that because I have never offered water bowls for my snakes to completely emerse themselves, they just opt to try to drown themselves instead.... LOL

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Some snakes have a fascination with water, others hate it and use it for drinking purposes only (silly them eh). I don't give mine the option... It gets too tiresome cleaning cages when heavy boids decide they want to empty their "swimming pool".

Then again a large waterbowl can aid the shedding process by upping the humidity in the enclosure... there are advantages and disadvantages.
 
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mine does put their head in the bowl sometimes, looks kinda stupid :D

but i have large exo terra bowls cause i like the stonish look of it , but my corns reach 120-150cm length so its not enough to take a swim
 
Hokie went under the other day when I was putting him back. I always place him into/over top of the water in his bowl, and probably 3/5 times, he will take a sip. This time he went all the way under and "swam." It was funny!
 
My kings will sometimes go swimming, but my corn pretty much avoids the water altogether, except for drinking...
 
Tula_Montage said:
I think that because I have never offered water bowls for my snakes to completely emerse themselves, they just opt to try to drown themselves instead.... LOL

panther2-1.jpg


Some snakes have a fascination with water, others hate it and use it for drinking purposes only (silly them eh). I don't give mine the option... It gets too tiresome cleaning cages when heavy boids decide they want to empty their "swimming pool".

Then again a large waterbowl can aid the shedding process by upping the humidity in the enclosure... there are advantages and disadvantages.
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That picture just makes me laugh.. It's as though he's saying "give me a big water bowl or it's all over for me!"

Don't you just love kid's idle threats!...lol
 
My husband feed our two adults last night and thought the snow was drowning in the water bowl. He rushed over, unclamped the top and pulled Smokey out only to watch Smokey jump (well, if he had legs) right back in with his dinner, a chick. We think the chick was too dry to swallow so Smokey decided to drink and eat at the same time.

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suecornish said:
My husband feed our two adults last night and thought the snow was drowning in the water bowl. He rushed over, unclamped the top and pulled Smokey out only to watch Smokey jump (well, if he had legs) right back in with his dinner, a chick. We think the chick was too dry to swallow so Smokey decided to drink and eat at the same time.

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I had a roommate many years ago that had a Nile Monitor that he used to feed live mice, and that thing was so aggressive and demented that it would regularly drown it's food in it's water dish. Always a disturbing, yet somehow quite fascinating, thing to watch...
 
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