water bowls

hey everyone my baby athena is going threw her first shed with me and i heard that they might want to soak in water i have a pretty small water dish in her tank now should i put a bigger one in so she can get in it and soak ???????:rolleye2:

None of my snakes have ever soaked in their water bowl and I have never had a bad shed (knock on wood):bonk:. I say just make sure you raise the humidity to about 70% during shed and you should be fine.

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Originally Posted by Drew420

hey everyone my baby athena is going threw her first shed with me and i heard that they might want to soak in water i have a pretty small water dish in her tank now should i put a bigger one in so she can get in it and soak ???????:rolleye2:

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I just spray the enclosure some instead of having a large water bowl in it.If they lay in it to long i feel it gives scale-rot a chance to present its ugly self ;).

cool thankx for the help :cool:

Healthy, mite free BP rarely soak and do not have to have a dish big enough to soak in.

Just make sure you provide your BP with proper humidity (which means you must have an accurate reading with a digital hygrometer)

My bowls are 4" PVC couplers with 16oz deli cup inserts, so too small for anyone to soak. I do spray occasionally this time of year because it always gets so dry in the wintertime. I use one of those pump up garden sprayers with room temperature water. I don't usually use that in the spring or summer when the humidity is higher, generally only in the winter time.

ok cool i got the humidtiy up pretty high around 75% so i think im all set thankx guys and gals

I have one pastel female that loves to soak during her shed. When she goes blue she goes in her water bowl until she sheds. Even though I get the humidity up to 75-80% for her. I could have sworn she had mites but no she just likes to soak.

Between sheds she is never in the dish...

I don't have a ton of snakes so I don't mind giving them a bigger dish when they go blue. But the little ones like their humidity hides the best. I make a hide out of those hefty snap together bowls and put in damp spagnum. Then they shed and the spagnum dries out till next time. The perfect hide.

This is what the bowls look like...
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