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When I first got my snake, she spent a fair amount of time just soaking in her dish. That was back when she was small and I only had a "funarium". When she started to grow she stopped soaking, and I thought it was just cause he dish was too small. I recently got a huge aquarium for her, she is used to it now and i got a really big dish for her too, but she NEVER soaks anymore, just takes drinks.

Is this bad? she sometimes has a bit of trouble shedding, and if it is bad, is there anyway to coax her back into soaking?

>>When I first got my snake, she spent a fair amount of time just soaking in her dish. That was back when she was small and I only had a "funarium". When she started to grow she stopped soaking, and I thought it was just cause he dish was too small. I recently got a huge aquarium for her, she is used to it now and i got a really big dish for her too, but she NEVER soaks anymore, just takes drinks.
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>>Is this bad? she sometimes has a bit of trouble shedding, and if it is bad, is there anyway to coax her back into soaking?

You say you got a really huge aquarium for her.
My guess would be you have a screen top right?
Sometimes when you have a large aquarium with a screen top it is hard to maintain a decent humidity.
You say you have a nice large water bowl so the easiest thing to do would be to cover half to three quarters of the screen top.
This will help hold a little humidity in the tank. It doesn't take a lot.
You can also provide a humid hide when the snake goes into the "blue".
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Ok thanks I'll give that a go, just one more question though.

How do I provide a humid hide? just spray the bark in it every once in a while with some water or...??

Thank you

I use many different things...
*a plastic container with a lid on it with just a hole cut into it.
*a plastic goldfish bowl on its side
* a cave with moistened paper towels
or any of the above with moistened moss even or even spray the tank once in the am and once at night. just a few ways i do things
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I totally agree with the previous post but thought I'd mention what has been working best with my ratsnakes.

I buy one of the smallest cottage cheese containers at the store. Roughly an inch tall and a few inches across. Then, after emptying it, I cut a half circle hole twice as wide as the snakes width in the lip of the container where the lid attaches. I likewise cut a circle hole twice as wide as the snake in the center of the bottom of the container.

I then take a little(just enough to loosly fill most of the container) sphagnum moss (can get it from pet stores or bales of it from nurseries for very cheep).

Take the moss and spray it down with water, wait a minute or two, then squeeze out the excess moisture. Put the lid back on the cottage cheese container and place it upside down in the enclosure(lid on the floor).

This gives a humid place for the snake to loosen it's skin for shedding and is a very comfortable secure feeling hide since they can burrow inside it and feel tightly enclosed.

This is basically one, cheep, example of what the previous post was talking about with damp hides but there are many options out there.