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kinda urgent heat help,

Agent p

Agent p

"Pauly T to some.."
hey guys im a bit worried at the moment, the heating in my house has packed in and its been absolutely freezing in this house for a good few days and wont be fixed for another 3 or 4, is this gonna affect my corn (tulip) she is only 4 months old and has spent the last week tucked under her heat mat, will this be ok for her? because she is buried under her heat mat will the lack of outside heat be too cold or will she be ok for a few days? mny mum offered to take her in for a few days in her house but i dont want to move her about too much as she only has settled in, any help would be very gratefully recived :) thanks guys

yes i am a big worrier :(
 
well i got a little temperature marker in the middle of the tank, and its below 16 degrees i think, it may be 14/16 degrees, but the heat mat is warm underneath.
 
Don't feed her!! It's too cold for her to digest.

I guess if she was mine, I'd move her to mum's. It could get even colder.

Nanci
 
Agent p said:
well i got a little temperature marker in the middle of the tank, and its below 16 degrees i think, it may be 14/16 degrees, but the heat mat is warm underneath.
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Do you really mean degrees??? or celsius. Because 16 degrees is way below freezing. And how warn is warm under the heat mat??
You need to get proper thememeters with a probe. It help reduce the guess work. But I think you ncould leave the snake there but..l. don't feed it for a week after your heat come back on.
 
Put her somewhere warm when you take her outside. Make sure the car is warm. I'd put her in something like a sock, tied in a knot so she can't get out, in my shirt. And keep my hand on her to know she didn't somehow get out.

(I lost a kingsnake, the only WC one I ever found, out of a knotted pillowcase at a Holiday Inn once...)

Good luck- hope you get your heat fixed soon.

Nanci
 
oh right ok, i was just going to take her whole enclosure and rush to my house, its a 6 minute walk so in the car itl only take a minute her heat mat wont have time to cool down, would that be an ok idea?

and to lennycorn sorry mate i meant degrees celcius, 16 farenhiet would be too cold for me to survive let alone tulip :D
 
I'm so dumb- I was thinking no electricity- of course it would still be warm at the heat mat...So yes, if you covered up her viv to keep the heat in, and maybe got a heat light (even though I hate those) and could accurately measure the temps- she'd be ok.

I'd still take her somewhere warm, though, if you can do it safely.

Nanci
 
Yes, I think it'd be ok to move the whole viv as long as the car is very warm inside and you have the viv covered when you go in between the house and the car.

Nanci
 
oh right ok! phew i was really worried then,
ok cool, will covering the viv with like a towel all the time be a risk, like no oxygen or fire risk? i am mainly worried that the moving about will stress her out

(im realy sorry about the questions, its nice to know rather than not to know and thank you so much for the help nanci)
 
I don't think she'll even know you moved her...

If I had to keep her in my unheated house, I'd just put layers of towels over the viv, except the front, over the top, but leave a crack open for air. (I cover mine with plastic wrap to keep humidity in while shedding, just leaving it open around the edges.)

I think a one minute car ride would not be stressful, though. What if your electricity goes out? What if the heat mat fails?

Nanci
 
yeah thats a very good point, and im staying up my mums anyway for christmas so id be happier staying with tulip there, ill get her moving soon then :) thanks a lot for the help i really appreciate it,

if i dont speak to you before have a nice christmas!! :santa:
 
Well if you're not going to be home with her in the unheated house, definitely move her!! Besides, who wants to spend Christmas without their snake??

Merry Christmas!

Nanci
 
i definately agree with the fact of who'd want to spend x-mas way from their snakes! but... 16 degrees Celcius is completely fine for corns. it's not great, but it isn't putting them in any real danger. they deal with much less in the wild. in 16C i can wear shorts. it's not too bad. if it was 16F, then we'd be in trouble.
so, move your snake until you get your heat back, but if that does happen again, i would no worry about it. if you're going to try feeding, maybe try something smaller than average, just incase. but i've had my snakes in that temp quite often with no problems.


cheers! :santa:
 
thanks fire man :) well im up my mums now and she is next to the raidator heating up for a while :) and im playing my acoustic (i hope she likes it anyway :D)
 
um guys, im really sorry but this is off topic but its the same problm, i just realised now my othe rhousemate has an emporer scorpion in his room in the unheated house, he has a heat mat and a viv for himself, will he be ok for a day or two?
 
Maybe you should ask down in General Chit Chat where you could address it to scorpion owners. Sounds like they have the same temp range as corns, though, but I don't know what happens to them if they get cold. Was 16C the coldest it got at night? Is it in a pretty small viv that the heat mat will have an easy time to heat??

Nanci
 
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