Water Bowl - In Tub Enclosure

seems as though I am fighting a loosing battle with water bowls. They are being knocked over it seems like every day. If you have a rack system with plastic tubs please let me know what you use or leave a link. The more responses the merrier. Thanks.:gj:

8/9 of mine seem to do fine with the bowls i use. I do have one, however, that is notorious for dumping her water. I used to put it along the front edge of the tub or in the corner and discovered that if i put it dead in the middle where she can get around all sides of it, she doesnt dump it, but just slides it around slightly. Maybe playing around with placement would help?

Steve,
We use a 5 inch ceramic bowl, with a 16 oz. delicup inserted for easy cleaning. I rarely get a tipped over water bowl (usually only if a wild male was in the females tub for breeding, and flipped the delicup).

Tim, where do you pick those up at? Thanks for the help.

I use 2 1/2" sections of large PVC pipe the same way Tim does. I use them to hold tupperware bowls, and the snakes can't tip them anymore.

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Originally Posted by casperca

8/9 of mine seem to do fine with the bowls i use. I do have one, however, that is notorious for dumping her water. I used to put it along the front edge of the tub or in the corner and discovered that if i put it dead in the middle where she can get around all sides of it, she doesnt dump it, but just slides it around slightly. Maybe playing around with placement would help?

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yea i tried that too, thinking the same thing as you are, they just seem to get around them. sneeky little things :D

4" PVC couplers w/ replaceable deli cups.:gj:

We use the 7 1/2" ceramic bowls we got from www.pet-dog-cat-supply-store.com for our adults and 4" or 3" for babies. They are the stoneware crock dog dishes. They seem to work well for us in our racks.

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Originally Posted by PythonWallace

I use 2 1/2" sections of large PVC pipe the same way Tim does.

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Do you attach them to the tubs at all, or are they just heavy enough to keep them from being overturned?

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Originally Posted by ctrlfreq

Do you attach them to the tubs at all, or are they just heavy enough to keep them from being overturned?

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Mine are not attached to the tubs, the weight of the water and diameter of PVC keep them VERY stable. A large girl could possibly tip one, but I haven't had it happen yet.

Example:
1400g Pastel girl
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Originally Posted by JBallPython

Mine are not attached to the tubs, the weight of the water and diameter of PVC keep them VERY stable.

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Nice, I'm going to have to try that... we have some low ceramics that are stable, but they're too big for hatchling tubs, and too small for the larger animals, and we're constantly cleaning up wet newspaper.

ARS Tubs (same size as CB70's).
Built in disposable bowl holder. Never have to worry about knocked over bowls again.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...iles/008-1.jpg

I've been wondering about trying to do something like that permanent holder thing our our new Iris tubs. Since we use natural substrate with most of the snakes, it wouldn't present a problem. I'm just trying to figure out if my hot glue gun would bond the PVC coupler to the tub correctly. I may experiment on an old Sterlite tub and see how that goes.

For now we mostly use ceramic ramekins. I like their pure white color so you can see when they are clean, they are kitchen grade, well sealed, heavy and not easily tipped. We generally place them well into a corner of the tub and down a bit into the substrate. Works fairly well but I like that ARS tub design better.

those tubs are nice but $15 a pop isnt cheap either. i may just have to break down.

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Originally Posted by ctrlfreq

Do you attach them to the tubs at all, or are they just heavy enough to keep them from being overturned?

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I hot glued mine to the bottom of the tubs. So far I've only had 1 girl break the bond, but she still doesn't knock it over.

Does the 4" PVC coupler hold the 8 ounce deli cups? If so, where do you get the cups??

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Originally Posted by FL0OD

yea i tried that too, thinking the same thing as you are, they just seem to get around them. sneeky little things :D

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I use a 6" diameter dog bowl. Works great!

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

I've been wondering about trying to do something like that permanent holder thing our our new Iris tubs. Since we use natural substrate with most of the snakes, it wouldn't present a problem. I'm just trying to figure out if my hot glue gun would bond the PVC coupler to the tub correctly. I may experiment on an old Sterlite tub and see how that goes.

For now we mostly use ceramic ramekins. I like their pure white color so you can see when they are clean, they are kitchen grade, well sealed, heavy and not easily tipped. We generally place them well into a corner of the tub and down a bit into the substrate. Works fairly well but I like that ARS tub design better.

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Jo, perhaps PVC cement would work to bond the coupler to the tubs? I like the fact I can remove the coupler, so I can throw them in the dishwasher every so often to disenfect.

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Originally Posted by starmom

Does the 4" PVC coupler hold the 8 ounce deli cups? If so, where do you get the cups??

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I buy all my cups from a local restaurant supply/catering company, $15 got me 200 cups.:gj:

what size cups are they?