How much time?

[JoshJP7]

Heres a question for everyone who owns 1 snake to 1000 snakes....

On average how much time do you spend workin with/on your BP's?(Cleaning, feeding, handling...anything that has to do with snake care)

I am curious to see how much time other people spend workin with/on their snakes. Right now I have 11 snakes and would say I spend roughly an hour a night for general cleaning and handling and then about 2 hrs on feeding day... total time spent a week caring for my snakes is about 9-10hrs.... How bout you?

[Mikkla]

90% of my time maybe, but if I dont count the time I spend thinking and talking about snakes then it's maybe 2 hours a week.

[Freakie_frog]

I spend maybe 3+ hours cleaning my snakes and snake room on Sundays. It takes me 2 hours onThurdays to feed my snakes. I then spend like 2+ hours cleaning out the rat bin and feeding and cleaning and sweeping floors. Plus I spend maybe 20 minutes a day spot cleaning and changing water.

[JoshJP7]

I know theres more than 2 BP owners out there!!! Cmon yall how much time do you spend?? How many snakes??

[Brimstone111888]

I got 3 snakes. I'm usually always checking on them. Maintenance takes maybe 15 mins for spot cleaning. Every two weeks I tear apart everything and disinfect everything. That takes about an hour.

maintenance per week: 2-3 hours per week

Over time with snakes: 7-9 hours per week.

Actually just started breeding rats so I'm sure that will add on an hour or so

[juddb]

For me it just depends it doesnt take long for me to clean up after them. But sometimes i really just want to get a good look at everyone. So some nights ill be up till 1 am just checkin everyone out. Also feeding days are crazy sometimes.

[PythonWallace]

I spend about 30 minutes a day after work spot cleaning, checking water bowls and feeding and watering my chameleon, rodents and dart frogs, then I spend about 2 minutes on Wednesday or Thursday feeding the snakes that take f/t and a few minutes on Sundays feeding the live eaters. I clean and sterilize 4-5 tubs at a time, and have extra clean tubs ready. It takes me about 20 minutes each time with a scrub brush, showerhead, air compressor and paint sprayer full of Novasan. That's about 1 1/2 hours a month for cleaning. With driving to get rodents and stuff, it's probably about 16 hours total per month for everything.

[dalvers63]

We have 25 snakes of various species, most of them in racks. Daily time is maybe about an hour, checking everyone to make sure they have water, spot cleaning, making notes on anyone that has shed or is blue. There is also handling time, which can be anywhere from 30 min to an hour a day.

I also have the rat tubs to clean weekly, and daily feeding/water checks for them, too.

All told I'd say we spend about 10-15 hrs a week working with our collection, more if there is an outreach to do.

[ADEE]

we have two.. we spend as much time as it takes to clean their cages (maybe 20-30min) give them water and food and thats it. I try not to handle our BPs too often (especially the new one who just got here)

[Patrick Long]

I actually never timed it. as far as time spent with the snakes, i usually always have somehting out squiggling around