» Site Navigation
2 members and 747 guests
Most users ever online was 47,180, 07-16-2025 at 05:30 PM.
» Today's Birthdays
» Stats
Members: 75,905
Threads: 249,104
Posts: 2,572,100
Top Poster: JLC (31,651)
|
View Poll Results: I change my snake drinking water....
- Voters
- 175. You may not vote on this poll
-
Daily
-
every second day
-
every thrid day
-
every fourth day
-
every fifth day
-
every sixth day
-
every seventh day
-
BPnet Veteran
Re: How often do you change the drinking water?
I drive my boyfriend insane with watering my snakes. They get fresh (purified) water every other day(sometimes everyday if I feel like it) and I scrub their water dishes 2 times a week. Before I bought purified drinking water from the store my snakes would rarely ever drink. I decided that $2.75 wasn't bad for 2.5 gallons of water so I got a huge jug with a spigot for them. So now I just take out their water and put it under the spigot and fill it up! No heavy lifting and no spills which is awesome! Nothing is worse than a stinky snake dish IMO. Would you want to drink out of a stinky water dish? HECK NO! So I have a scrubber and some disinfecting soap I use specifically for them. Snakes remind me of horses in the fact that they don't have to mess in their dish to make it smell really foul. When I started working at a stable the FIRST thing I knew i had to do right away was scrub their water buckets. If you have never smelled a horses stinky bucket you are very lucky. It smells HORRIBLE!! Like rotten eggs/ sulfur! Stinky snake dish doesn't smell like that but it does smell bad if you let it sit. So thats why I water them every other day and scrub dishes twice a week. <_< I do use reptisafe terrarium water conditioner sometimes but with the purified water it isn't really necessary.
~*Luna*~ The crazy Sagittarius/Snake BP Lady
Cal and Ki's Proud Mommy.
~~* Goddess Bless*~~
1.0.0- Normal Ball Python (Kyros "Ki")
0.1.0- Normal*Spider sibling*Ball Python(Calypso"Cal")
1.0.0- Betta fish (Leonidas "Leo")
  Steve Irwin (2/22/62 - 9/4/06)  
Sagittarius- Shockingly blunt since the beginning of time!

-
-
BPnet Veteran
Re: How often do you change the drinking water?
I just noticed that after two days, my bp refuses to drink from the water bowl. So, I have to replace it every other day. Five minutes after I've put the new water in the tank, she's slurping away haha.
-
-
Re: How often do you change the drinking water?
Lately I've been having to change everybody's water every day or two. Cu keeps knocking her bowl over (I need go get a heavier one), meaning I don't only have to refill the water but clean the entire enclosure. And I need to change Sangre's (Borneo blood) dish every day or two with really warm water to keep the humidity up.
-
-
Registered User
Re: How often do you change the drinking water?
 Originally Posted by Drew87
I dont change the water daily, more like every couple of days. But every week the water bowls get a good scrub.
same here
"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."
- Rita Mae Brown
1.0 pastel (Dinko)
0.1 normal (Cj)
0.1 spider (Toast)
-
-
BPnet Veteran
Re: How often do you change the drinking water?
i change the water everysecond day.. except if its dirty... everytime i change the water i soak it with hot water.. then refill.. but every week i give it a good srub
-
-
BPnet Veteran
Re: How often do you change the drinking water?
Once a week for most of them. I have a few males who like to move their water bowls to the warm side of the tub. Whenever I find a water bowl pushed to the warm side I clean it, add fresh water, and put it back on the cool side. I don't agree with putting a water dish on the warm side to increase humidity (there are better ways). I make sure my snakes have fresh, cool water daily.
-
-
BPnet Veteran
Re: How often do you change the drinking water?
I do it every day. It just makes me feel better.
-
-
Banned
Re: How often do you change the drinking water?
 Originally Posted by supercinnamon1day
I do it every day. It just makes me feel better. 
im wit you on that
-
-
BPnet Veteran
Re: How often do you change the drinking water?
I feed every 4 days and while the snake is wrapped around the rat i clean out the water bowl. But the time im done its swallowing its dinner. Then i move on the to next tub and repeat. The water bowls get a soapy scrub down inside and out.
-
-
BPnet Veteran
Re: How often do you change the drinking water?
I typically just add water as needed during the week. Unless I notice they have messed in it or bedding is in it or what have you.
On the weekend I scrub the bowel and give fresh water.
~Una 
0.2 Normal BP - Meerah & Tink
0.0.1 Aberrant Albino Cali King Snake - "No Name"
1.0 JCP - Lucky
0.1 RTB - Leelah

-
Posting Permissions
- You may not post new threads
- You may not post replies
- You may not post attachments
- You may not edit your posts
-
Forum Rules
|