Water Importance

[BUSHSNAKE]

for sure! and thats why humidity is important too, the drier the air the more moisure they lose

[Invisible Snake]

Yeah water is of great importantance to garters. About a week and a half ago we had a brief heatwave here in NYC and my checkereds were constantly inside their waterbowl, it was as if it were a jacuzzi, they had their entire bodies submerged with only their heads sticking out or laying on the rim of the waterbowl.

[Steveo]

Steve, have you considered doing a "tip of the day/week" sticky? I'd love to have a place to go when I need some expert knowledge dropped on me.

[guidofatherof5]

Steve, have you considered doing a "tip of the day/week" sticky? I'd love to have a place to go when I need some expert knowledge dropped on me.

The expert knowledge is this forum

[thamneil]

Steve you should really do a tip of the day/week sticky! You are a wealth of knowledge! That would be such a beneficial thread to a lot of people.

[guidofatherof5]

I feel rather stupid for not mentioning it but it is very important that the water dish is removed and hand clean/scrubed out. In the past I've gotten lazy and simply wipe the plastic water dish out with a paper towel and called it good. it wasn't good enough.
I'm not sure if the issue is with my water or the interaction of the water with the plastic but a thin film of slime(only word to describe it) develops on the dish and the only way I can get it out is to scrub it out with a brush.
I keep plenty of scrubbed water dishes of all sizes ready to just exchange with the dirty one. This allows me time to scrub them clean at a later time.

[Steveo]

The slime you mention is probably a bacterial colony. It could be harmless but better safe than sorry.

[guidofatherof5]

Thought I'd give this a bump.

[RedSidedSPR]

I'm guilty of leaving it for a day or two if its clean but it's really important I've come to realize.. more then you might think.

[Light of Dae]

I have two dishes of water in each of my babies tanks. So that they can always drink from one that isn't being swam in... as well if one gets pooped in while I'm away at work they have fresh water still. Started doing it for George as he loves to poop in his water... brat. Seen him swimming in one he pooped in and then had a drink from the clean one. Silly guy.