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Tip for people who own active snakes!

Carinata

Carinata

Ever Evolving Exotics
Since I got my racking system I quit using the little petco water bowls because they were expensive and a pain in the but to clean. So I used zip-lock sandwhich containers. They are flimsy yet big enough for a big corn snake to soak in for shedding. But my more active snakes like to turn them over. :( My mole kings bury under the bedding then push up and tip them over. The taiwan just finds in amusing to tip the bowl over. And now I am getting the Radiated ratsnakes and Robbie told me tehy tip water bowls. So last night I bought a huge bag of marbles from the Craft store. Ip put them in the bottom of the water bowls and they snakes can still soak yet it is very hard for them to tip the water bowls over. I just thought I would share in my success!
Hope this helps,
David
 
I forgot to add that I like to wash mine in a strainer with a gentle soap like Ivory before I put them in the water dishes
 
I think I might have to do this with my Black Milk. He tips his water bowl, and it's a heavy (50+ grams) ceramic bowl. Maybe a little added weight would help. :)

I'm glad it's working for you so far!
 
airenlow said:
TMI! Do we really need to know how you wash your marbles??? :grin01:
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Yeah and I am immature
Suzy said:
I think I might have to do this with my Black Milk. He tips his water bowl, and it's a heavy (50+ grams) ceramic bowl. Maybe a little added weight would help. :)

I'm glad it's working for you so far!
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It works amazingly well and I assume it will help them shed when they reb against and inbetween the marbles
 
I bought a bunch of heart-shaped glass bowls that fit GREAT in corners of my tubs. WAY too big for the kiddos to try to knock over, even the chubber BP's!

They were a dollar at walmart... I love 'em! They were in the candles/artsy section.
 
personally, I like the small dog water bowls you can get at the dollar store. They're designed to be difficult to tip over, they have a wider base than top and no room to get up under them. Probably won't help if your snakes burrow under newspaper, but it works fine for my guys.
 
If only we could get them trained on water bottles....


It's a good idea David. I know lizards will swallow things like marbles, but I hope snakes won't. Never heard of any doing so.
I personally like those dog dishes that won't tip...but they still occationally manage to make a mess.
 
v_various said:
personally, I like the small dog water bowls you can get at the dollar store. They're designed to be difficult to tip over, they have a wider base than top and no room to get up under them. Probably won't help if your snakes burrow under newspaper, but it works fine for my guys.
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I use the water bowl and then cut a hole in them for access, they becomes water bowls and a hide at the same time...don't know why anyone would use anything else, never had one get tipped, pretty much impossible because of the wider base design and clean easily as well.
Note if you do cut a hole in it, then cut off the bottom of the hole so that part of the base is gone...make it look like a cave opening. Otherwise if the snake is in there and you lift the bowl with one hand and pick up the snake with the other, they like to wrap their tails around that little bit of plastic at the bottom of the hole. Now both your hand are full and part of the snakes body is under the bowls lip, so you can't just set it back down.
Guess how I learned that one...:blowhead:
 
i use the ones for dogs, crock? maybe. idk the name exactly. but theyre great. thicker plastic, and i never have a tip over. and i get them a couple bucks a piece or less usually. so its good. but the marbles is a good idea. is saw someone with a 'conda that did similar so that it fealt like it was in a real body of water instead of just in its big pool with a flat smoot bottom.
 
ForkedTung said:
I use the water bowl and then cut a hole in them for access, they becomes water bowls and a hide at the same time...don't know why anyone would use anything else, never had one get tipped, pretty much impossible because of the wider base design and clean easily as well.
Note if you do cut a hole in it, then cut off the bottom of the hole so that part of the base is gone...make it look like a cave opening. Otherwise if the snake is in there and you lift the bowl with one hand and pick up the snake with the other, they like to wrap their tails around that little bit of plastic at the bottom of the hole. Now both your hand are full and part of the snakes body is under the bowls lip, so you can't just set it back down.
Guess how I learned that one...:blowhead:
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That's what I did also. I use a soldering gun to cut the whole in my bowl. It works great!
 
Sounds like a nice idea. I got tired of my snakes tipping their water bowls too. So I opted for a cheap and easy fix. I buy the 12 oz deli cups, using a hot glue gun, I glue one cup to the tote. Then when it's cooled I drop another one inside the glued one. No spills and easy to clean out. If I buy 500 cups I can supply 250 snake water bowls. :) The boas get big dog bowls or cat little pans. LOL
 
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