Question for thoes of you that remove water bowls for pairing?

[West Coast Jungle]

A snake with an RI will smear it everywhere... removing the water bowl is just silly. It's like letting two kids with chicken pox play together as long as they don't share drinks.

A ball python can go a few weeks without water... But of course its not recommended... we just leave our water bowls in. No real reason to remove it.

What you are describing is a more advanced case of an RI which I would imagine no one in their right mind would pair together. What you want to protect against is the RI that has not yet been noticed. They dont start out spewing mucos everywhere

But to each his own. One thing for sure is it cant hurt to remove bowl so why not?