Need some Advice

[Ghroller]

Just got my new Adult Femal BP yesterday, but I'm still waiting on her cage.. so she's temp in a rubbermaid. Problem is it's too small and the largest i can really find:\ (surprised how hard it is to find them sometimes here) But am looking again tommorow.

Anyhow... I know where she's been (bought her from a friend), I know she's got a clean bill of health. Been thinking of housing her with my Male BP (breeding partner next year) till her cage arrives so she has more room. This would definity be temp. But break my quaranteen, so having conflicting feelings.

[reptilemama]

She'll probably be less stressed by herself, even if she's in a smaller cage. When I had BP'd, they seemed much less concerned with the size of their cage than my boas, who would rub their noses raw in a rubbermaid. The BP's always seemed content. Since it's temporary, I'm sure she'll do fine in a smaller cage for a little while.

[Ghroller]

Problem is though I can't fit a bit enough water dish in, she keeps spilling the one she's got.

[JuliusSqueezer]

How long is temp? a couple of days? a week? a month? If it's just a few days, let her take a sip or two and take the water bowl out. Not every snake lives near a pond or stream in the wild. Most have to wait till it rains so they can take a slurp or two before it dries up. Ball pythons are heavily populated in the dry grasslands of Africa. They can go awhile with no water...certainly a couple of days...Even so, it would be nice to set the bowl in and see if she will take a drink every day or two till you get her hooked up with a bigger cage but take it out and give her more room to stretch out. However slight the risk is....spilled water /damp substrate is a far greater health risk than a day or so without.

[Ghroller]

Probibly looking at a month or more till her cage arrrives (was hoping a week or two more but that changed). Thats what worries me the most is the wet substrate she ends up with.