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    Forum Moderator infernalis's Avatar
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    Ice Cubes in the water bowl

    So do you??

    the temps are hitting 100(F) + lately, my snakes seem to like ice in the water bowls on really hot days such as this.

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    Re: Ice Cubes in the water bowl

    I used ice cubes when I was trying to brumate them when I didn't have any cool spots, a dark cardboard box with a screen window on top, filled the dish with ice cubes once a day and getting temperatures as low as 55 degrees

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    Re: Ice Cubes in the water bowl

    I use ice cubes when it's hot. The snakes enjoy sitting in the water dish curled around the ice.
    Chantel
    2.2.3 Thamnophis ordinoides Derpy Scales, Hades, Mama, Runt, Pumpkin, Azul, Spots
    (Rest in peace Snakey, Snap, Speckles, Silver, Ember and Angel.)

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    Re: Ice Cubes in the water bowl

    I also use ice cubes. I think pheobe likes it too. Moset times she watches me put them in and right after thy melt when the water is cooler she gets in. She also like when I pour cool water on her..lol other then misting.
    I wanted to Thank you Steve for your help with the heating pad.

    I have 4 Easterns(mine: Furbie and Whiplash; moms: Diamond and Silky) all are 5 and half months old. So much fun gaters are.

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    Re: Ice Cubes in the water bowl

    J Ice cubes … we do need no stinkin ice cubes … it’s still raining and 68 degrees
    Michael
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    Re: Ice Cubes in the water bowl

    Quote Originally Posted by brain View Post
    J Ice cubes … we do need no stinkin ice cubes … it’s still raining and 68 degrees
    I wouldn't mind rain and 68 degrees! It's going to be 100 degrees here (or close to) And the AC in my car isn't working! I have almost an hour drive to work!!!
    Joanne 0.1 T.radix Jade / 0.1 T.s.sirtalis Jett

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    Re: Ice Cubes in the water bowl

    Quote Originally Posted by snakehill View Post
    I wouldn't mind rain and 68 degrees! It's going to be 100 degrees here (or close to) And the AC in my car isn't working! I have almost an hour drive to work!!!
    Moreover, I have been keeping up with the warming trend and it doesn’t look good for most of you out there... hot, hot, and hot.
    Michael
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    Re: Ice Cubes in the water bowl

    Quote Originally Posted by snakehill View Post
    I wouldn't mind rain and 68 degrees!
    You would think so, but it gets to you after a while. It's been a year since we reached 90 degrees and when nearly every day of the year is gray, cloudy, cool and /or wet it wears you down and you get mighty sick of it.

    Finally, summer comes, which is very short to begin with and still nothing. Still doesn't feel like summer. No relief from the dreary gray. Very little anyway. This is the second "non-summer" in a row. It's getting old. Mostly sunny and 70 degrees is all one can wish for lately, or sometimes we have to settle for just "not raining".

    Poor garter snakes around here just spent Oct-April inactive and underground. Less than half the year is even warm enough to be active at all, and we're supposed to be in the middle of that active part of the year, and what do we get? Mostly rainy days in the low 60's.

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    Re: Ice Cubes in the water bowl

    When the tornado hit we lost power for 3 days, it got really hot inside. I used ice cubes a lot. Until, of course, the freezer lost its air, due to lack of electricity.. No more ice

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    Re: Ice Cubes in the water bowl

    I'm happy with the cooler temperature, I'd feel bad for my frogs if we had a constant heat wave.
    Chantel
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    (Rest in peace Snakey, Snap, Speckles, Silver, Ember and Angel.)

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