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Possible bleach-tainted water?
My ball python's 5-inch water bowl got a chip in it, so I went out and got a new water bowl, one bigger, so as to help with humidity.
I picked up one of those extra large poly-resin water dish by Exo-Terra.
Anyways... I changed the bowl out yesterday. Took the new Exo-Terra dish, and soaked it in a bleach/water mix for about 10 minutes. Then I took it out, rinsed it well (or, so I believe it was rinsed well), and gave it the smell-test, making sure there was absolutely no hint of bleach smell. Then I also gave it a scrub with anti-bacterial dish soap (probably should have done the soap first).
Anyways... all seemed good. Filled it up with water, and put it in the enclosure.
On a side note, my girl ate last on Friday the 23rd.
Today, everything looks fine. Humidity seems to be staying put more with the new dish. I go to change the water in the dish and when I open the sliding doors I get a nice smell, not too strong, but enough since its a little hot and humid in there, of bleach. Again, not overwhelming, but you can definitely smell it. Obviously a bit concerning, but I take the bowl out and I notice where the water line is it actually stained the water dish where the water was. You can see the water line/stain that was left in the pic below. Obviously, there had to be some bleach leeching off the bowl to stain the water.
My girl looks fine. I lifted the hide to look at her, and she was just coiled up looking fine. Didn't take her out, as she looked comfortable, and I just wanted to take care of this bleach problem now.
I took the bowl out, gave it another cleaning (just using dish soap), heavy rinsing again, and left it outside to dry this time. I put the old bowl with the chip back in there for now. But, will probably put something else in there, cause I don't like the possibility of injury in that chip.
So... do I need to worry? Not sure if she drank any water. I'm guessing she at least went by the water dish, because I keep the a thermometer near it, and that was toppled over... meaning she was probably by the water. But, don't know if she drank it. Hoping that they would sense/smell/taste tainted water and not drink?!?
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