Help-BP 1st Bath

[DSGB]

never givin any of my snakes a bath. if yous temps/humidity are spot. there is no need IMO.

[bender29]

I give my snake a nice warm bath and thats where she does her pooping. She sits in water roughly 2 inches deep and just relaxes then poops and I let her swim back and forth for a min or two. I take her out and put her in a warm towel to dry her off and then she just sits in the towel and relaxes and slithers out when she wants too.

You need to make sure it isn't too warm, btw. Since our body temperatures are much higher, warm to you would be scolding to a snake.

[bigballs]

i give my BP the occasional bath b/c i work in a pet store and she get's handled by a few other people than me normally, so it's just to make sure nothing nasty came off the other people's hands. and if he just sat there and soaked, it probably means he was relaxed, which is a good thing.

because you work at a pet store, it may be wiser to give youreself a bath and other handlers hand sanitizer before handling the snake rather than give the snake a bath after being handled by dirty people...

[muddoc]

because you work at a pet store, it may be wiser to give youreself a bath and other handlers hand sanitizer before handling the snake rather than give the snake a bath after being handled by dirty people...

That's the wisest thing I have read in this thread yet.

[rabernet]

I also don't bathe my snakes, nor soak them before a shed - because that can actually make a shed worse by leeching out the natural moisture that's between the old skin and new skin as part of the shed process.

Baths aren't necessary - sounds like the OP's grandfather had it right all along!

[Chris Rossi]

Does it harm them to give them a bath. Because since yesterday he has been moving all around his cage and seems to be more active. Normally he would just sit under his half log hide all day doing nothing.

[littleindiangirl]

Well, he could be stressed out... or he is hungry. I have found my BP's will cruise the cage if they are hungry.

[rabernet]

Does it harm them to give them a bath. Because since yesterday he has been moving all around his cage and seems to be more active. Normally he would just sit under his half log hide all day doing nothing.

If he's training for the BP Olympics, he's probably stressed. His prior behavior is what "normal", secure ball pythons do.

[Chris Rossi]

Hes not hungry because my grandfather feed him a few days ago. I just though it had somthing to do with him getting a little excersise because even when heis hungry he doesnt move this much.

[mr86mister]

Thanks Bender!

Yeah, I check the temperature of the water I soak her in. I like to keep it around 85*F