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BP travelling care tips?

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  • 01-15-2019, 11:06 PM
    Mangled Calamity
    BP travelling care tips?
    I'm moving out of state to attend University. That said I AM allowed to bring my snakes, but I've never traveled this far (56 hours roughly) with them before. An hour or two at best for vet visits but this is a whole new ballpark. One is 6 years old, the others are 6 and roughly 4 months old. It's just the three and they're all healthy as is, two of which just recently had good full sheds, but is there anything about transporting them that might help me keep their stress to a minimum or precursor measures I should take before such a long trip?

    I'm due to leave on the 21'st of January.

    They're going to be in the front seat with my passenger just so nothing falls on their travel containers or worse and I have a power source for heat pads and thermometers sealed to the sides of their travel containers for good measure. I usually put some of the tank fillings in with them (repti-bark sphagnum moss etc) and lightly mist it for short trips;--

    I'm not sure if there's much else to add? Tips and tricks would be appreciated. I just want to make this as easy as possible on my babies!

    Pics just for fun.

    https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...61/unknown.png

    My rescue snake Deus, 6 years old and counting. ^

    https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...04/unknown.png

    Furion, the 6 month old spinner child. ^


    https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...16/unknown.png

    And the littlest, Orion whom I guess (Breeder didn't specify at all) is 4 months, if I remember correctly she's a Super Blast.
  • 01-15-2019, 11:16 PM
    Jellybeans
    Re: BP travelling care tips?
    They are all beautiful
    Just make sure there's a heat source for them to stay warm and make sure they don't get smushed and you should be fine

    Sent from my LGMP260 using Tapatalk
  • 01-15-2019, 11:27 PM
    Dianne
    Re: BP travelling care tips?
    I’ll add to keep their container out of direct sunlight. The temps can rise dangerously high from the sun shining in a tub through the window. I usually shade my transport tubs with a sunvisor.
  • 01-15-2019, 11:59 PM
    Bogertophis
    I've always used styrofoam boxes (or ice chests) with padding inside to keep my traveling snake-pals at a constant safe temperature. They're also bagged
    securely inside, of course. They travel quite well, actually. Depends on the season if you need anything to keep them warm...you can use the heat-packs they
    use in air shipping.
  • 01-16-2019, 02:35 PM
    Judy@SYR
    Here's a great source for information on how to move with reptiles. :)

    https://shipyourreptiles.com/pages/25-september-2018
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