BP Water bowls, need advice.

My BP's have a bad habit of tipping their water bowls and in some cases getting in them and flooding their enclosure. I know I can't stop them from soaking but what do you guys use or do to keep their bowls from spilling.

Thanks!

I had the same problem and I now I know how to keep it from happening. The overflow thing still happens from time to time. I have one that I sometimes forget likes to overflow his and I end up filling it too high. But anyway the key to a non-tippable bowl is short, wide, and heavy. Target had some great ceramic bowls that are small, medium, or large, short and heavy. Haven't had one tip yet. :)


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Put a rock in the bowl? maybe burry the bowl a little? I saw a thread yesterday about someone who made untipable bowls from PVC pipe. Do you use tubs or terrariums? and what substrate do you use? I have found its easier for bowls to tip over on mulch than on aspen. Mulch pieces are bigger and therefor more un-leveled. Aspen can be mushed down and flattened easier.

These are just my ideas

I use Petsmart's cheapest dog bowl. Its not heavy but its nice and wide and most importantly wider at the base than at the lip.

You won't find a bowl too heavy for a snake to tip but they don't do so by lifting rather by resting on the lip of the bowl. So a bowl that has a base wider than the lip does not tip over.

Not to say they don't soak and overflow it or lift it up ans slosh some water around.

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Originally Posted by auhsojnacnud

Put a rock in the bowl? maybe burry the bowl a little? I saw a thread yesterday about someone who made untipable bowls from PVC pipe. Do you use tubs or terrariums? and what substrate do you use? I have found its easier for bowls to tip over on mulch than on aspen. Mulch pieces are bigger and therefor more un-leveled. Aspen can be mushed down and flattened easier.

These are just my ideas

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I keep them in tubs with paper towels so burying them is not an option. ;)

I will look into the wide base pet bowls, however I haven't seen the PVC pipe bowls. Can you send me a link?

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...owls-made-easy

the concept is that you use pvc pipe to hold disposable deli cups as your water dish

I can`t see any problem since I`ve started to use this following stoneware water bowl. It`s cheap, heavy and strong.
http://www.petmountain.com/product/d...ware-dish.html

Either use heavy ceramic bowls (it's a pain on cleaning day if you have a lot of animals), pvc couplers with deli cups or bowls with a wide base that cannot be tipped

I use those now and even the 3000 + girls cannot tip those

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a.../WaterDish.jpg