Winter Emergency Preparedness

[Crowfingers]

To start off, I have a young ball python, and I've been watching the weather as winter has started and it looks like there is a good chance that it will be a cold and wet one for my area. I was wondering if anyone used the uni-heat fish/insect/reptile shipping packs as a heat source in a power outage. The product description says they heat for up to 30 hours and only get to 100*F. We usually loose power for a few hours to a day when it snows/ices heavily and I want to be prepared for if/when that happens.

I live in a small apartment so there is no way for me to get a generator and I'm not using a kerosene heater inside (too much risk of CO poisoning ). I was thinking I could sew a pouch of thicker material to place the pad in and Velcroed it shut so he can't directly contact the pad, or stick him in the rubbermaid bin I keep him in when I deep clean his cage and put the heat pad under that. What do you all think? Is there anything else that could be done?

Last year we lost power for about 20 hours and the apartment got down to 52*F after about 6 hours and stayed there, so I'd really like something that could keep him warm if this happens again.

[bcr229]

If you only have the one snake then getting a few of the shipping packs for emergency heat isn't a bad idea. Alternatively, you could just put your snake in a bag and put him down the front of your shirt to keep him warm.

I have racks + freezers full of snake food + incubator, so I have a generator.