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For those of you who keep your snakes in a sterile rubbermaid tub etc what do you keep in with the snake, just a water bowl? I have mine in a sterile with a water bowl and kleenex box as a hide and today I woke up to find a perfect shed! All in one piece eye caps and everything! I was surprised because she really doesnt have anything to rub against except for the edges of the water dish. The humidity was a little over 70 so I'm sure that helped, but do your snakes sheds always come off clean while in a sterile/rubbermaid?

np

I have in my iris holiday container (4ft of floor space). Aspen shavings, wooden hide, climbing branch, smallest kitty litter box for a water bowl, and fake plants serving as a cool hide.
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1.1 Ball Python, 0.1 motley amel corn, 0.1 western hognose

just water bowl and two box hides for young snakes, and when they get older the hides come out. Then they have just water bowl and extra newspaper for hides they always have perfect one piece sheds.

The thing I love about tubs is its so easy to control the humidity, I just slide the water bowl closer to the hot spot and it goes up to 80%. After shed slide it away from the hot spot.

TomChambers

My adult BP uses BOTH of his hides. Why do you take them away from your BP? Just so you can see it?
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1.1 Ball Python, 0.1 motley amel corn, 0.1 western hognose

No because they outgrow them, and I use a certain size tub(about 29X17X10) that would be too crowded with hides on each side as they reach adult proportions.
They hide uder the newsprint the majority of the time even when they are young so they aren't traumatized be the absence of the boxes.
I could put them in huge tubs and supply hides on each end, but then that would defeat the purpose of the space saving of using tubs in my setup.

TomChambers