Expanded clay pebble substrate

[guidofatherof5]

It looks like a lot of thought and care went into their living area.
Maybe they won't poop in the water dish as much or poop on the sides and smear it the length of the enclosure. Or any of the other things they do to purposely annoy us.


Great looking setup.

[Stefan-A]

It looks like a lot of thought and care went into their living area.
Maybe they won't poop in the water dish as much or poop on the sides and smear it the length of the enclosure. Or any of the other things they do to purposely annoy us.


Great looking setup.

Speaking of pooping, my snakes have learned a neat trick. They lie across the water dish with the head hanging over one edge, their belly in the water and the tail hanging over the edge on the other side of the dish, so that when they poop, they don't actually get anything in the water. Afterwards, of course, they drag their arse through the water dish, so that you have to change the water anyway.

It's cleaning day today, I could take pictures of the poop collection surrounding the water dish.

[DrKate]

My boys have actually never pooped in the water dish! (Now that I say that, of course...) They really don't go in there much at all. I've been experimenting with water levels, but neither deep (so they can swim) nor shallow (so they can sit and soak) seem to be attractive.

Oh and Greg, if I were going to give up and use aspen I'd also be finding a way to get them into a separate enclosure to feed, sorry for not specifying. I'd do the same with carefresh, though, at least until they're adult size - despite marketing claims to the contrary, I honestly don't trust that a little baby snake would be safe after eating a huge flake of paper...

[gregmonsta]

Sure thing I always hover over them with my tweezers to tackle any unwanted sustenance.