Snaking toilet: regular maintenance or only if issue?
I'm sure there are differing opinions on this but snaking a toilet that is used &quot;normally&quot; should not be a periodic maintenance procedure.  In normal use nothing should be there for the snake to dislodge and it can cause scratches and other wear-and-tear on the fixtures and the plumbing.
Now by &quot;normal&quot; I mean that the only things that should go down the toilet are bodily wastes and normal amount of toilet paper.  Anything else runs the risk of clogging.
If you have some special considerations or there is a known issue with the plumbing, then you might want to do it without a clear clogging issue but a better approach would be to get that problem resolved.