I don't think twice about it. I just clean up and move on.
:oops: Yep. Since nothing is amiss I'll do just that.
I know everybody meant well! Silly me. ;)
11-17-2016, 02:18 PM
Coluber42
Obviously you should always clean up messes as soon as possible, but if you check a once or twice a day, the snake could easily be sitting in its own pee for many hours. It's worth it to give them enough space so that they don't have to sit in it until you come 'round to clean.
For that matter, my BP has a variety of different types of hides and hangout spots in his enclosure, and he has fairly predictable daily habits for where he likes to hang out. He spends the day in one of the tight, secure hides with a small entrance, but in the evenings he moves into one of the open ended tubes. Overnight he climbs up to hang out in a hide on the upper shelf, and then goes back down to one of his daytime spots by morning. The fact that he has predictable patterns and different preferences at different times of day says to me that he benefits from having those choices, even outside of the fact that he doesn't have to sit in his mess.
