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soccer191

soccer191

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I am leaving for 4-5 days starting tomorrow, and need a question answered tonight please. I live in an old house, and the air conditioner does not keep up very well in weather over 90 degrees. Most of the house will probably get too hot, except the bathroom. It gets cooler in there if the door is shut, because it is a smaller room to cool. But the problem is, if the door is shut, there will be no day/night cycle. Will this pose a problem? And if so, it surely would be better than constant hot temperatures, right? Help please!
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Too hot can be deadly to cornsnakes. Day/night cycling is not so important. So I would put them in the bathroom & close the door so they won't get too hot. But if the power goes off, that could be bad. Do you have someone to check & make sure the AC is at least running?
 
Makes me wonder how They survive in Mississippi. Its past hot here 110.
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Because in the wild they have unlimited freedom of movement and can travel some distances if necessary to burrow into leaf litter, under logs etc. and find cooler damp/shady places to wait out the hottest parts of the day.

In a tank, they're effectively trapped and have no way of escaping dangerous levels of heat.
 
Yes, the bathroom with no light cycling would be better than too hot. Have you thought about getting a small timer and putting it on a lamp in the bathroom? That way you'd have some light cycling. If you put the timer on a lamp with a fluorescent bulb you wouldn't be adding much additional heat, and it wouldn't cost much to run.

Be sure to leave the snake at least two water bowls big enough to get wet in and cool down. If he fouls one (and even if it's never happened before, it can; usually when you're out of town! :sidestep:) he'll have a clean one from which to drink.
 
Yes, the bathroom with no light cycling would be better than too hot. Have you thought about getting a small timer and putting it on a lamp in the bathroom? That way you'd have some light cycling. If you put the timer on a lamp with a fluorescent bulb you wouldn't be adding much additional heat, and it wouldn't cost much to run.

Be sure to leave the snake at least two water bowls big enough to get wet in and cool down. If he fouls one (and even if it's never happened before, it can; usually when you're out of town! :sidestep:) he'll have a clean one from which to drink.

If you're really worried about the temperatures, you might consider asking someone to snake-sit. For the length of time you're talking about, it wouldn't require anything on their part other than a place to put the viv. They could leave the lid on the viv and never bother with the snake at all.
 
Thanks for all your answers. I was getting ready to put them in the bathroom, but I remembered that the laundry room stays cool and has light. I put them in there with large water bowls, and they are fine. I checked the memory of my thermometer, and the max was 82 and the low was 76.
 
I did! And I found lots of reptiles and amphibians along the way. Box turtles, toads, a five lined skink and a really cool salamander.
 
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