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Hi everyone,
Just thought I would share something I figured out. My pacfic gopher snake was spending a lot of time in her water bowl-sometimes days. I couldn't figure out what the problem was (example-no mites). Anyway, I saw some pictures of a set up using the type of dog water bowl that has hollow space underneath which doubles as a hide (I guess they are built to be hard to knock over). So I put one of those in and bam! fixed the problem. Now the snake spends most of her time under the water bowl not in it. Now I realize that the snake didn't care about the water, it just wanted a cool hideout. duh! I have put several more of these bowls in other cages and the snakes love them.

Never thought of those- sounds cool though, thanks! - Matt
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Matt from Minnesota
Cornsnake, Eastern Kingsnake, IL Bullsnake - all girls.
One Pair of cute Crested Geckos.

I have used those for several years. They do work great! They are made by Van Ness I believe. Take care!

Jeremy

I tried an experiment with those water bowls. I put different types of hides in cages including the bowls you described. The snakes chose those bowls more often than any other hide. For my rosies, they like the bowls on the small side so they can wedge in tightly. Kings and milks didn't care about bowl size - any bowl will do.
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Mark G
Collection:
Assorted CA rosies
A few Ariz mtn kings

i've only been able to find a small version of those bowls, which work great. however, if your snake is soaking, you may want to check your temps and possibly decrease the cool end of the gradient. whenever i get a soaking snake, i find that the temps are a little on the high side.

matt

What a great Idea, doubles as a dish and a hide.

I have 4 growing babies(3 Great Basin Gophers, 1 Western Yellow Belly Racer).

I was wondering what size should I get for them, the Gophers of course will get bigger than the racer, and faster.