Great.. my power went out and it's COLD !!

if you have a gas oven you can turn your oven on and move the snake into the kitchen area, our oven heats up pretty much the whole house to about 80-90

same issue with the carbon monoxide, I believe.

We had this issue many years ago when my sister had an iguana.

Snow storm knocked our power out for about 5 days...

We had a gas hot water heater and filled up water bottles with hot water and put them in with him and he would crawl right over to them.

You do have to constantly change the water to warm water...but...he lived :)

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Originally Posted by Oxylepy

same issue with the carbon monoxide, I believe.

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ovens dont put off too much or lots of families would die during the holidays, and a alot of resturant workers

Natural Gas and propane are two of the safest gases to use in the home. A properly working propane or natural gas heater doesn't produce Carbon Monoxide is large enough quantity to even be rated. However with that said improper combustion of anything from paper to vet fuel will produces CO (Carbon Monoxide)..So the choice is yours I've used those heaters for the past three years with no problem, Just crack a window to allow air exchange and your good to go.

A small back up generator just for your heat lights is a good thing to have and they are fairly cheap now a days. A propane heater would work but you would have to open a window which would make the humidity drop, Also I another idea is a foam dissposable cooler and smaller tupperwares for the snakes and hand warmers. Poke holes in the lid for some air. tape the heater to the lid to keep the heater a ways away from the snakes. One other option is buy a snake shipping package from "weshipreptiles" a 12 hour to a overnight shipping package with their heaters should keep the snakes cozy till the power return. I hope one of these ideas has helped

I like he propane heater ideal sinece it can be resued with just fillnig a tank, I may look for one and have it set up inthe hall blowing into the snake room ( with the door open and jsut crack my bedroom window to allow it ot vent out any gases. Or I can fire up my truck and get a large dc/ac convter and just power my space heater off that.


either way if the pipes freeze i am so in deep waste cause we have the older grey pipe and it not consider safe anymore to use(stooped being used 2 years after we bought the place.

If nothing else works maybe try some hand warmers. They don't get really warm or last very long but they'd be better then nothing. Or maybe put them in a styrophome cooler just for the time being with some hand warmers. Depending on how many snakes you have you may only need a couple and you could put the snakes in snake bags or pillow cases and do a few per cooler. Just a thought but whatever you do good luck and I hope everything turns out okay!!