Snake poop!

[Bogertophis]

Some of my rat snakes like to go in their water bowls...it's like they think it's going to flush? Just remember: What goes in, must come out!

[KMG]

Hahahaha it really depends on the animal. My Dumeril’s boa always deposits well away from anywhere she hangs out…but my scrub python has ZERO shame and knows no rules. He’ll slither right through his own poop and come right to me for a hug.🤢 Although, I guess arboreal snakes just get to drop on everything below, so it makes sense that they wouldn’t care.

Maybe try moving the hide and see what happens?

My GTP once shed and during that shed urinated in it. So that next morning I had a shed hanging on the perches filled with pee. A little pee balloon. It was interesting.

[KMG]

Some of my rat snakes like to go in their water bowls...it's like they think it's going to flush? Just remember: What goes in, must come out!

My BRB does that often but his pool is big enough for him to soak so I can easily see how it happens.

What amazes me is my big Blood will do it fairly often and her bowl is no where near big enough for her to get in. It's almost like she knows what she's doing. It's actually pretty nice for clean up. Certainly better than her flooding her cage floor.

Occasionally my GTP or ETB will hit the water but I try to position them so that's not easy to do.

[Bogertophis]

Hahahaha it really depends on the animal. My Dumeril’s boa always deposits well away from anywhere she hangs out…but my scrub python has ZERO shame and knows no rules. He’ll slither right through his own poop and come right to me for a hug.🤢 Although, I guess arboreal snakes just get to drop on everything below, so it makes sense that they wouldn’t care.

Maybe try moving the hide and see what happens?

That was quite the image! ("come right to me for a hug") But I think you're right & that's why many snakes seem oblivious about where they leave it- in nature, they just move on.

[sp0420]

No joke my 1500+ grams girls take bigger ones then my 50 pound pit. And the 2500-3000+ grams girls I have have taken poops that rival mine and I'm a 160 pound man! Btw love this post every time I spot clean I always think my God look at that duce. Maybe it's because I'm mentaly 12 years old but their poops always amaze me lmao 🤣

[Bogertophis]

My GTP once shed and during that shed urinated in it. So that next morning I had a shed hanging on the perches filled with pee. A little pee balloon. It was interesting.

Now & then one of my snakes will leave the whole mess (not just urates) inside their freshly-shed skin- it's very tidy of them, I'll say that. They've never left it on a branch though.

[Snagrio]

Few days ago my boy just finished his shed. And I could tell he finished because the second I opened his tub I got odor whiplash. It had been, idk, 2 months maybe since his last dump? I'm not exaggerating when I say it looked like our German Shepherd did a #2 in his tub it was that massive, I couldn't believe all that was inside him.

Doubly unfortunate thing is that the shed was obviously unsalvageable (there was also splattered urates in the same area and it was clear the shed wasn't spared), and my mom saw all of that lovely mess.

Needless to say I deep cleaned the entire enclosure after that.

[Bogertophis]

Few days ago my boy just finished his shed. And I could tell he finished because the second I opened his tub I got odor whiplash. It had been, idk, 2 months maybe since his last dump? I'm not exaggerating when I say it looked like our German Shepherd did a #2 in his tub it was that massive, I couldn't believe all that was inside him.

Doubly unfortunate thing is that the shed was obviously unsalvageable (there was also splattered urates in the same area and it was clear the shed wasn't spared), and my mom saw all of that lovely mess.

Needless to say I deep cleaned the entire enclosure after that.

And this is why now (when your snake is "empty") is the time to weigh him, if you're so inclined. One dump can make a pretty big difference in their weight.

[Snagrio]

And this is why now (when your snake is "empty") is the time to weigh him, if you're so inclined. One dump can make a pretty big difference in their weight.

Unfortunately I weighed him just as he went into shed, and he's long since eaten so the reading (870 grams) is probably off by like 50 grams or so. I'm sure he's still at least over 800 grams empty though.

[Bleh]

This thread is full of snake poo....