Trying to fit things in

[jjhill001]

Originally Posted by Heidyth

Thanks I will keep the small water dish.

I've got to agree with Andy, outside of severe dehydration or parasites a snake has really no reason other than predators or hunting (think water snakes) to get into water which lowers body temp and therefore the ability of the snake to be active.

I imagine that the anecdotes about water bowls you've mentioned are coming from folks who are keeping their snakes too hot. Happens with colubrids a lot because many of the caresheets out nowadays are old and still call for the 90+ degree hotspots and warm ambient's that just aren't beneficial to the vast majority of North American colubrids.