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power outage

Nadine88

Nadine88

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I fed my snake today and of course, murphy's law has kicked in and the power's gone out.

Any thoughts on what I should do if the power doesn't come back on soon?
 
Are you able to get to a sporting goods store and buy hand warmer packs? Or Walmart, maybe, in the camping section?

Do you have hot water? You could make a hot water bottle. Or if you have a gas stove and can boil water.

Can you evacuate the snake to a friend's who has power, without too much disruption to the snake? (If you disturb it too much, it's going to regurge anyway.

Can you move the viv to the warmest part of the house?
 
Thanks Nanci for the quick reply. I think my best bet is Walmart 15 minutes away. I don't have hot water or a camp stove to boil. My old house is equally poorly insulated everywhere.

Should I just use one hand warmer pack at a time?
 
I'd put one heat pack in with her at a time. Either put it in a deli cup with holes, (like you'd have for a hatchling) or wrap it in newspaper. I don't think the ones you get from a store last as long as the ones we use for shipping, so you'll have to check it regularly, or put a probed thermometer on it.

I'd wrap her viv with towels/blankets, put the heat pack near where she is digesting, in her viv, and cover the top of the viv with towels to keep the heat in. Really, though, you can't heat the whole thing, you just need to keep her warm right where she is.
 
Okay, I'm back from wally world. I didn't have any newspapers so I wrapped one 'super warmer' with paper towels and taped a thermometer probe to the outside of the paper towels, about three layers thick.

It's actually warmer in her room than I thought it would be. The cool side is 69 and the warm side (paper towel wrapped hand warmer ) is 95F. The little hand warmer pack said they can get up to 163F! Yikes, so I will be keeping a very close eye on her and the hand warmer temp.

She's in her little cool side box - a large fruit chew box with one side cut out so she's covered and sitting on aspen. I put the handwarmer halfway into the box but definitely not on her.
 
Yay, the power just came back on. I am going to add the leftover handwarmer packs to my snake supplies.

Thanks Nanci! :D
 
So now for next time, you can go to Superior Shipping Supplies and order a pack of 40 hour heat packs. I think you get 10 in a pack. Then locate a couple deli cups- you can even make your own- get one or two cups at the actual deli and use a hole punch to put holes around the edge of the lid. That way you can secure the heat pack in the deli cup so the snake can't get burned by it, but it (the heat pack) can get oxygen so it can work. That's how I use heat for shipping. Each of those heat packs will last well over 24 hours.

Another emergency measure is to get a couple big gel ice packs or blue ices and freeze them, in case you have a power outage in the summer.
 
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