how long can a ball last?

[ball-istic8]

to those of you who shipped balls to the other side of the globe, how can a ball python last through shipment? Will they be perfectly fine if it take a week? How about on worst scenarios like a month?will they be perfectly fine as long as they're properly insulated?

[WellyBelly]

They should be overnighted with a 40+ hour heat pack. If not then I wouldnt trust that my animals will be AOA. Trust what you want, but I wouldnt trust a box of dirt through the mail system for a month, let alone a $5,000.00 snake.

[gncz73]

when your shipping a snake to the other side of the globe i would only use delta dash for the shipping. cost more but better for the long shipments.

[ladywhipple02]

Why would you want to ship a snake and have it take a week, let alone a month? I had a snake stuck in a box over the weekend and I was a nervous wreck! So was he, as a matter of fact, and came out biting, and refused to eat for a couple weeks. I think after a month in a box---if it survived, which I doubt---the poor thing would be so dehydrated and stressed it would never recover, anyway.

There are a couple global shippers out there that will overnight... check 'em out. You'll spend a little more, but you'll also have a happy, healthy snake.

[ball-istic8]

thanks guys for your replies, you guys are right! Why risk the life of the snake. Balls here cost an arm and a leg, bec most of them are imported. New morphs are very expensive here, a regular $99 pastel would cost $750 here what more if it is a spider? Normals costs $200 bred locally. Maybe I just hVe to wait till people breed the new morphs here so the prices will go down. I'll just have to start with normals.