Bathing your BP

[Monty the BP]

I was thinking about letting my boy splash around in the tub for a bit, but my question is what should the water temp be?

[kat_black181]

That's more likely to stress your snake than anything. The only time this is really needed is when the snake has made a huge mess of himself in the enclosure or to help with a bad shed.

[Rickys_Reptiles]

Don't bath your Ball Python. If its dirty, just clean it with a damp towel.

[Monty the BP]

Good to know, I thought they enjoyed it good thing I asked Being new to BP's is hard LOL

[anatess]

Yeah, we tried that with our first bp. Fail. And we almost got bit. Snake got on the water hated it and tried to escape, fall, escape, fall... stressed the poor gal out before we finally managed to grab the snake and put her back in her enclosure.

If the bp needs a bath (stuck shed, poop all over, mites, etc.) it's better to put him in a tupperware filled with water so that the snake can ball up in there with its head above the water with the lid on. Water temp around 90. Remember, when you put your hand in your armpits, that's around 98 degrees.

[kat_black181]

Good to know, I thought they enjoyed it good thing I asked Being new to BP's is hard LOL

Haha, it is very hard! But, there are so many people here to help.

Ball pythons aren't really known for soaking unless their husbandry is off.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

I was thinking about letting my boy splash around in the tub for a bit, but my question is what should the water temp be?

The question is why would you bath your BP?

Causing unnecessary stress is not a good idea.

[NYHC4LIFE8899]

Good to know, I thought they enjoyed it good thing I asked Being new to BP's is hard LOL

Not really,lol..he's my first for a month and it couldn't be any easier

[Marrissa]

Not really,lol..he's my first for a month and it couldn't be any easier

:/ Do we really need to make a new person feel unwelcome? That's not very cool. They were corrected on what they thought they knew. They came here to learn, not to have people be rude to them.

When I got my first snake, even with researching for a month or two before buying him, it was still very different than dogs, horses, and fish that I've had. It was a big learning curve and lot to take in at once.

[Pythonfriend]

is it really that bad and stressful for a BP?

i mean, they are quite adept at swimming and quite fast and can even hold their breath and dive. in nature, they cross ponds and rivers.

i am reminded of that funny picture of an escaped BP caught hiding underwater in a fish bowl watching a gold fish from below. and in all of the footage ive seen pythons just seem to hang out and relax and swim around calmly in water. if they really freak out, maybe the water was too warm?

of course, why do it if its unnecessary, but when you do it for example to drown mites, they seem to generally be totally fine with it.