The key to understanding this is, the bowl going dry is the problem. And that problem is also effecting the snake. Your snake, by coiling in the water bowl is a behavior indicating, the snake is dehydrated. Again, I remind you, in nature, water bowls are rare to non existent. Their design is more about conserving water then replacing water. The reason is simple, There is very little opportunity to drink in nature with xeric species.

Your(all or most of us) normal response is to give it water, which unfortunately is a bandage fix. It temporarily controls the problem without fixing it. Drying air is the problem that can be fixed. Again, its not A or Z. Snakes can and do withstand low levels of water loss.

Heres a wicked scary way to think about this. Your snakes coiled in the empty water bowl. So that bowl has a water volume greater then the volume of your snake. The entire contents of that bowl dehydrated in a certain amount of time. I ask, how much water did the snake lose? Consider, the evaporation in the cage effects everything in the cage, including the snake. Not just the water in the bowl. End pt 1

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