Help! Trying to keep 'em healthy!

As of now, none of mine are bowl tippers, but I also use heavy crock type water bowls. They're the kid they sell as dog water dishes. They seem to work just fine, and only cost $8 or so each. I bought a whole case of them from a local pet store at a discount.

Impending shed most likely. Here's a great link on that....

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...=332195#332195

Here's another if the shed doesn't go well....

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...=867552#867552

How's her enclosure humidity?

Slim, Thanks for your input. What I've been using is the large plastic dog bowls from Wally World, that have the openings on the sides (for picking up the bowls). My girls like to use these as hides - they can get right underneath and curl around. Guess I'm going to have to take away their water bowl/hides - no more water bowl gymnastics! They're getting ceramic bowls - thanks again!
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Deb V.

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Originally Posted by GoFride08

Slim, Thanks for your input. What I've been using is the large plastic dog bowls from Wally World, that have the openings on the sides (for picking up the bowls). My girls like to use these as hides - they can get right underneath and curl around. Guess I'm going to have to take away their water bowl/hides - no more water bowl gymnastics! They're getting ceramic bowls - thanks again!
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Deb V.

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You can remove the substrate where the water bowl is, put the bowl on the floor of the cage/tub, and then put the substrate around it again. This is what I do in my corn cage to prevent her from getting under.

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Originally Posted by realyblank2002

I have a problem myself, I am not sure where to post so sorry about that but my young female spider is spending a lot of time in her water bowl. I checked her for mites. I cleaned the tub. I even dropped the temp a little but she is back in the water, I don't know what to do. I have 6 others in the same rack and they are all fine. The temps are at 89 hot and 81 cool. What else should I do?

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DutchHerp, Thanks for noting the hijack - and for the good tip! :D
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Deb V.

You got it. I bought two ceramic bowls at petsmart for like 10 bucks...

Hey sorry about the hijacking but our problems I thought were kind of similar and well thank everyone for there help. It seems she was starting a shed but I have never seen any of my snakes do that.

I am using a water bowl/hide combination as a space saver for all my balls except one. A male het for Albino kept raising up underneath and spilling the water. I got tired of changing the aspen so often and switched him to a plastic hide only and a separate ceramic water bowl.

The ceramic water bowls are harder to tip. I have one that is always making a mess. If he can't tip it, he gets as much of himself as he can into the bowl and displaces the water.
Keep the substrate dry. As soon as you see a spill clean it up and change the substrate.I use newspaper.