Help-BP 1st Bath

Hey I gave my grandfathers BP his 1st bath in 20 years :8:.He just sat ther with his head under the water for the most part. THen he sat there with his head above water. Is this normal for a first bath?

Question why did you give it a bath???

I guess it is normal, but I have never given any of my snakes a bath. They may have recieved a soaking if they had a severly stuck sheb, but overall, they are very clean animals without baths. Snakes scales are very slick for the most part, and dirt does not collect on snakes in any amount to consider them dirty.

Well, snakes will always drink the water when they are first put in to soak. Thats why if you ever give medicinal baths, to always give them fresh clean water first to let them drink. I also wonder why you gave him a bath? :confused:

I gave him a bath because my grandfather doesnt mist him very much. I have also heard giving a soak will help with shead and relaxing them so theyll poop. I dont have him in a bath tub I just have him in a 96qt tub with about 1in. 2in of water.

i give my BP the occasional bath b/c i work in a pet store and she get's handled by a few other people than me normally, so it's just to make sure nothing nasty came off the other people's hands. and if he just sat there and soaked, it probably means he was relaxed, which is a good thing. :)

I rinse my snakes off if they have created art work with their poo or if they've laid in their pee. I simply hold them and rinse them off with water. I've never bathed my snakes... I wonder if they don't enjoy a swim in the wild every now and again? Some royals do live in the mangroves....

My boy does laps in his bowl sometimes, lol. They must enjoy it. :)

Yeah he seemed to like it. First he just sat with his headunder water but after a whilehe started to swim around:D

I give my snake a nice warm bath and thats where she does her pooping. She sits in water roughly 2 inches deep and just relaxes then poops and I let her swim back and forth for a min or two. I take her out and put her in a warm towel to dry her off and then she just sits in the towel and relaxes and slithers out when she wants too.

never givin any of my snakes a bath. if yous temps/humidity are spot. there is no need IMO.

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Originally Posted by mr86mister

I give my snake a nice warm bath and thats where she does her pooping. She sits in water roughly 2 inches deep and just relaxes then poops and I let her swim back and forth for a min or two. I take her out and put her in a warm towel to dry her off and then she just sits in the towel and relaxes and slithers out when she wants too.

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You need to make sure it isn't too warm, btw. Since our body temperatures are much higher, warm to you would be scolding to a snake.

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Originally Posted by azak323

i give my BP the occasional bath b/c i work in a pet store and she get's handled by a few other people than me normally, so it's just to make sure nothing nasty came off the other people's hands. and if he just sat there and soaked, it probably means he was relaxed, which is a good thing. :)

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because you work at a pet store, it may be wiser to give youreself a bath and other handlers hand sanitizer before handling the snake rather than give the snake a bath after being handled by dirty people...:D

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Originally Posted by bigballs

because you work at a pet store, it may be wiser to give youreself a bath and other handlers hand sanitizer before handling the snake rather than give the snake a bath after being handled by dirty people...:D

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That's the wisest thing I have read in this thread yet.

I also don't bathe my snakes, nor soak them before a shed - because that can actually make a shed worse by leeching out the natural moisture that's between the old skin and new skin as part of the shed process.

Baths aren't necessary - sounds like the OP's grandfather had it right all along! ;)

Does it harm them to give them a bath. Because since yesterday he has been moving all around his cage and seems to be more active. Normally he would just sit under his half log hide all day doing nothing.

Well, he could be stressed out... or he is hungry. I have found my BP's will cruise the cage if they are hungry.

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Originally Posted by Chris Rossi

Does it harm them to give them a bath. Because since yesterday he has been moving all around his cage and seems to be more active. Normally he would just sit under his half log hide all day doing nothing.

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If he's training for the BP Olympics, he's probably stressed. His prior behavior is what "normal", secure ball pythons do.

Hes not hungry because my grandfather feed him a few days ago. I just though it had somthing to do with him getting a little excersise because even when heis hungry he doesnt move this much.:D

Thanks Bender!

Yeah, I check the temperature of the water I soak her in. I like to keep it around 85*F

Only had to soak mine once when I first got him... he had a couple of bad sheds stuck. He HATED being in the water! I just used a large mixing bowl with lukewarm water (he was only a couple of months old at the time) and he spent the entire time being annoyed at me for not letting him climb out! :)

well mine seemed to enjoy it. He didnt try excaping once.