How long would you leave your snake alone?

Set up a "travel tub" for her temporary home while you're away. For the car ride, still bag her in a snake bag with a paper towel, even if you put that inside the tub - can't be too secure when you need to have your eyes on the road rather than what your BP is doing, and it will help keep her temps a little more stable if you happen to have a weather swing that day.

In 2009 I lost my entire collection during a 7 day business trip. A Noreaster hit and a power surge damaged my T-Stat in such a way that it allowed the heat tape to run full blast and unregulated. I didn't have a back-up which was my mistake and a painful lesson learned. By the time I got home I found six dead snakes in a melted rack. The only bright side is that the flexwatt seems to have shorted out before it caught the PVC on fire and burned my apartment building to the ground.

These days I wouldn't leave for more than a three day weekend without having someone come by to check on things. If I couldn't arrange that, I would take the snakes with me. They can get over a little stress, they can't get over being dead.

I'll be moving most of my collection, 1 bp, 3 leopard geckos, and an anole approx 100 miles for spring break.

I've done it before, and as long as you take the precautions they do great. If you did feed before the trip with smaller animals (not bps), then be prepared for some poop to clean. Car rides do that to leo's and others. :)

Thanks everyone! I was just at WalMart and saw a perfect sized tub with locking lid for $6. I will probably go back and get it this weekend!

Yeah, I'd definitely suggest a travel tub. I've left my animals home for 10 days, but their heat was regulated by thermostats and the house temperature was constant.

I was thinking im going to be going to my other house for 3 days ill be leaveing sunday evening and returning wed. is that to long to leave my snakes i got 4 balls and i worry and i really cant ask someone to come in and turn a light on or off. Any advice would be great please im already worrying but i have not checked my other house since the storm so i need to pay it a visit.

Like the others have said, if you were on a regulated temp and everything was closely regulated then it wouldn't be a problem, but since you're using a bulb that means that water bowl may dry up and then your snake has no water. It would be safer to take the snake with you. I don't know how far you're driving but I used to take my snake with me when I'd drive an hour or two to go across the lake, I just let her wrap around my wrist or so. I just made it a point to keep my hand out of the sun.