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I keep most of my Floridana in steralites and i had to take out all the aspen mulsh because they keep knocking over the water bowls

I put them all on paper towels but before i put water bowls in I was wondering what everyone is useing?

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Life moves pretty fast, if you dont stop and look around once and a while,... you could miss it.

you need crock bowls......heavy enough they cannot knock them over......

......ones with no outer lip around them...(straight sided...helps too....

.....could use cypress...it can get wet and not mold.....

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My hatchlings were kept in a small Sterilite tub, the one that is not tall enough to be shoe box size, and a paper towel. I always used a deli cup for the water bowl and it can’t be flipped in that box. When I moved them to a bigger Sterilite tub, I moved their whole small tub with the lid on sideways into the bigger box. I would keep Aspen in the bigger tub, so the little tub was a clean spot to offer food and catch any spills that would happen. Sometimes you get a little brat that really makes a game of spilling that bowl!

I use 2 oz deli cups in my hatchling boxes. I cut about an inch of velcro with peel off adhesive backing and attach one side to the bottom of the shoe box. I stick the other half of the velcro strip to the bottom of a deli cup. Then I place another deli cup inside the one affixed to the bottom of the box and put water in it. I can remove it and clean it easily while the other remains fixed with the velcro. So far no spills

Jim

You are a genius! I never would of thought of that. I could glue tape or velcro one deli cup and place another in it.

Thanks man thats just the answer I was looking for!!!!
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Life moves pretty fast, if you dont stop and look around once and a while,... you could miss it.

Instead of velcro, I hot glue 2 oz cups to the lid of a 16 oz deli cup. The "lid", which serves as a stabilizing base gets buried in the shavings.
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Ophidiarium Charieis

I use heavy water bowls.
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I decided my old sig was too big.

I have taken a disposable plastic cup and cemented it into the sterilite tub. Then I nest a second cup into it and fill that one with water.
Jeff

take any kind of plastic dish, deli cup, cool whip bowl, butter dish, etc..... take the lid and with a razor or exacto knife cut a 1-2 inch hole right in the middle of the lid. Put the lid on the bowl and fill it 1/2 -3/4 with water. Even full grown snakes can't knock it over because the weight of the water against the inside of the lid displaces the snakes weight. Plus it allows you to put the bowl wherever you want to in the cage, allows easy cleaning and refill, the lid is an easy place to set your f/t for feeding, and the snakes feel more secure in the bowl with the lid when soaking.

I never get spills.

You can see some of them in this pic although not much detail.

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Vichris
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane"- Marcus Aurelius

Vichris Variables

Some very clever solutions to an old problem. I do the same as vichris, but I put the hole in the lid near the side, as someone posted they had a juvenile apparently drown, apparently unable to find the hole. I notice snakes usually "work" the edges... which is why funnel traps work etc., this behavior makes it easy for them to exit a full water bowl if they must. It makes sense to me. vic h.

I use heavy pvc rings sized to fit 2 oz, 8 oz, and 16 oz disposable cups. Not only are these seldom overturned, but very sanitary-it is simplicity itself to discard a soiled cup and replace it with a new one. No time wasted bleaching and cleaning water crocks! And yes, we do recycle the used deli cups ...
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Brad Chambers
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