Please add pics of the brown scales and the enclosure. Also describe the enclosure temps and humidity. It will give us a better picture of what's going on.
My bp was always knocking over his water bowl when I first got him and I was worried about the same thing. I solved it by using a wide bottom tupperware dish. When filled about a third of the way, it was stable enough that he no longer knocked it over, but since it was only a third full he wouldn't slosh out the water when he moved around in it.