For whats its worth, my snakes hate bathes. I usually just wipe them down once every couple months with a warm wet washcloth if needed. Its mostly only needed when one of them decides to body paint her cage with poop or urates. Otherwise I don't bother bathing them. And I only wipe them down because I have them out a lot sitting on me while I do stuff around the house or have them stretched out on the bed or couch and I really don't want a snake with rat urine dried on it sitting on me http://ball-pythons.net/forums/image...v0IKbQcTPf.png If I didn't take them out much, I probably would never bath them unless they did the body paint thing.