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Worried about my snake

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Silk1972

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Hi

I bought my snake in the summer but i did not take het levels into consideration. Thing is i love my snake and i have spent a fortune on Habitat etc but i live in an old farmhouse and we have been warned to expect a really bad winter.

I have a heat mat OFC but is there anything else i can buy to make sure my snake dont freeze to death? as i cant leave heating on 24/7.

I was told DO NOT buy a hot rock but i dunno whether thats true.

Anyway thx for any advice in advance.

Thank you
 
DO NOT buy a hot rock, just to clarify.

A heat lamp, maybe... but it can be extremely difficult to heat a cage properly if it's subject to outside weather.
 
If the heatmat is controlled by a thermostat it should be fine unless you have snowdrifts indoors, imo!
 
Wow, I grew up in an old farmhouse, but we left the heat on. How are you going to survive without heat???? I'm such a wuzz.... and I live generally in the St. Louis area and we don't get tttttttttthat cold. I really need to move back to Arizona :)
 
First off, do you have a reliable digital thermometer with a probe? To control your temps, you need to know exactly what they are.

Secondly, a hide over your UTH will help retain heat and give the snake a warm place to hole up. If regular hides aren't quite cutting it, see if you can find one of those little insulated bait boxes and make a hide out of that. Put the probe of your digital thermometer inside the hide so it doesn't get too warm in there.

Insulating your hide, even with old blankets can also help retain heat.

Finally, unless it gets below freezing in your house, your snake will be fine. Just make sure he hasd a spot in the low 80s to digest in. If he doesn't, refrain from feeding him until it warms up some.
 
Great advice, Becky. I was so frozen about the idea of not having heat through an English winter that I forgot to add my .02 worth :) I'd second the idea of a heavy blanket on the cage. I had one on my guy's cage at our last place that had a lot of drafts. It really did help a lot.
 
What's so bad about English winters? :grin01: On topic, I can't give better advice than you've already recived. A hide on the UTH, possibly a heat lamp (Put a guard mesh round it so the snake would touch it and burn itself), a blanket over the tank...
 
Thanks for the advice - I was somewhat concerned about my new ghost spending the winter in a house where Im not always home - and it doesnt even get "that" cold here in Wiltshire!
 
i went to the pet store today and bought a ceramic heat lamp and a automatic thermastat so when the temp drops i have peace of mind. Damn expensive but atleast i know my snake will be cozy during deep winter.

Thanks again for all your advice.
 
My snakes are in my basement, which gets a bit cold during the winters. As a result, my warm side stays at the proper temps, but the cold side dips to about 60F. I have a heat lamp mounted about 8 inches above the top of the screen to warm up the cold side to about 72F. It is on a timer, and shuts off at night. The temp dips a little during the night, but nowhere near 60F!
 
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