keeping dry - (anti spill method?)

How do you guys keep your water bowls from spilling over? I have newspaper substrate in a tub, and I use chinese food soup containers as water bowls.

My girl BP likes to crawl under the newspaper substrate and camp out there instead of using her two hides. In the process she may knock over the water bowl and she'll just be sitting in a really damp tub for hours depending on when she does it because I go to work.

What do you guys do/use to keep dry? Any simple house methods? I'm thinking getting a bunch of marbles and weighing the bowl down in the water.

I use heavy ceramic bowls with 16oz deli cup liners. :D:D

hope this helps

I use heavy ceramic dog bowls. I have never had a snake tip one over. They actually have some nice ones at Dollar Tree near me; I would check out your local store. They were only $1.

The heavy the bowl the nicer...exo-terra makes some nice dishes that are heavy and can be flush with the bottom so it is 100% impossible to tip it over

Many of us use PVC pipe couplers with deli cups. I sometimes use the deli cups for 2 weeks if no water mineral circle forms in them otherwise they get replaced once a week. Saves on cleaning and scrubbing and you know the replacement is clean.

i too use a heavy dog bowl, and under it i have a paper towel folded in to quarters. this helps absorb any spills from sliding the tub in and out. but from what you're saying you might want to try the PVC thing and maybe seal it onto the tub/tank. this way you can just drop the deli cups in it and take them out when needed.

Heavy ceramic water dishes from http://www.reptiletubs.com/

I'm using GladWare bowls in mine. I siliconed one of the bowls to the bottom of the tub using aquarium silicone, then place a second bowl inside that one that actually holds the water. it's safe, effective, and can be removed if necessary.