I have a new ball python that I got the day before yesterday. She is only 150 grams or so and I really want to let her settle down and not disturb her, but every time I turn around she has spilled the water from her bowl and humidity is up to over 90%. I have to change the newspaper and take her out again and again several times a day, and that's only when I see it, obviously I am not always in the house I have to work etc. and this can't be good for the settling in process.
Now, before you suggest a bigger heavier water bowl, this snake is only 150 grams and the water bowl is VERY sturdy and large, with a flat bottom, made of porcelain, to the point where even my biggest snake, which is 800 grams or so, (same kind of bowl for all my tubs) can not "over turn" it, only drag it around (and the newspaper with it) a little. Also, when the water is spilled, and the newspaper soaking wet, the bowl seems unmoved.
Whenever I take her out to change the newspaper and wipe everything down, she always spends some time "exploring" the cage again, which is expected since she is new and you take her out she gets a little scared. But it seems that she is only ever calm when the newspaper is soaking wet, then she is in the corner chilling on the heated area.
I even have the water bowl only half full now. It makes me worry if she can find the water, but I am suspecting she is going inside the bowl to displace the water out? I never saw this though when I open the tub she is always chilling in the corner everything soaking wet.
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