Why does my Ball Python keep tipping her water bowl over?!

EVERY TIME I change her water dish she TIPS IT OVER. Spiling wate rall ove rhe substrate, and after i change the substrate and change the water, she does it again! Why?

Time to get a different dish, I use ceramic dishes harder to tip over

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Originally Posted by Bellabob

Why?

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Because she can ;)

You need to get something heavier or something that cannot be tipped over, been there most everyone does at some point, you just need to find the right dish.

Well, it is 84 degrees in my house, and her basking spot is about 92 degrees, and thats making her "cold" spot 84 degrees. Is it possible that she may be doing it because she's to hot? But none of my other snakes are doing this.

Plus, a heavier bowl can't always promise you dry results. I've got a heavier dish for my spider, and sometimes he'll slither through it while he does his somewhat nightly cruise and the water spills over the edge. I tried fixing it by not putting so much water in it, but then he doesn't drink out of it.

Ball pythons... divas, all of them. :rolleyes: :D

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Originally Posted by Bellabob

Well, it is 84 degrees in my house, and her basking spot is about 92 degrees, and thats making her "cold" spot 84 degrees. Is it possible that she may be doing it because she's to hot? But none of my other snakes are doing this.

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nope

Temps sound find, some ball pythons just love to knock over their water bowls. So i got some huge dog dishes from PetSmart that weigh like 3 pounds and have never had one get knocked over yet.

Check out dog bowls, they are designed to be heavy so dogs can't tip them over ...

I have a female that did the exact same thing, I just put a half inch square of self adhesive Velcro rough side on the enclosure and fuzzy side on the bowl. I haven't had any issues spraying bleach water on either side and having the sticky coming loose, I have also put the bowl through the dishwasher with out it coming off. She hasn't tipped it since I did that.

I would recommend getting a heavier ceramic bowl with sides that are not tapered, just straight down from top to bottom. These are harder to tip.