Transporting while in shed

My BP and I have been staying at my mom's house for the last 5 weeks over my winter break. But alas, tomorrow I am heading back to my apartment... and my snake is in shed. :mad: And she has been for close to 2 weeks, so she must be ready to molt ANY DAY! She is still curled up in her humid hide. I am just praying she will surprise me and be all bright and shinny and new when I wake up in the morning.... but I doubt it.

How do you guys think I should move her? Her moving box is a 15qt tub with a latching lid and air holes that has a really fluffy towel in it. That way she can hide in the folds of the towel and be really secure. I thought about just putting the whole humid hide in the box and stuffing the towel around it so it doesn't slide. She has not left the humid hide in almost 2 weeks, so I could just pick it up with her in it.

I have been OBSESSIVE about humidity this time to give her a perfect shed and I feel like taking apart her tank and reassembling it and moving the poor thing is going to destroy all of that hard work.

Anyway, I am about to crack open a 40hr heat pack to get it ready for tomorrow morning. Any advice appreciated, or even "haha, sucks to be you" is fine too.

How long is your drive? I don't think a couple hours will be detrimental to your whole humid plan.

How long is the trip to your apartment? I had the exact same thing happen to me a few weeks back. I just wet down the towel I used in the travel tub with hot water and kept the car at 80 degrees (made a miserable 2 hour drive but my snake shed perfectly the next day so it was worth it.

The drive in about an hour and half. I like the wet towel idea, that could help a lot!

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Originally Posted by Emily Hubbard

The drive in about an hour and half. I like the wet towel idea, that could help a lot!

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As I said it worked for me, but I do live in the tropical rain forest that is Florida so my results could be impacted by that but as KatStoverReptiles said a few hours of low humidity shouldn't be too bad.

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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant

As I said it worked for me, but I do live in the tropical rain forest that is Florida so my results could be impacted by that but as KatStoverReptiles said a few hours of low humidity shouldn't be too bad.

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Yeah, I am in Northern California, so it is currently freezing cold and pouring rain!! :O I am pre warming the car, and then I have a huge blanket to wrap the tub in to and from the car. I am soooo not excited about moving all of Christmas presents and clothes, as well as my snake set up, in the pouring rain. :mad:

Oh yeah, it sure is raining in No-Cal this weekend! That's a good thing, though, since it means the ambient humidity will be nice and high... unlike our usual bone-dry weather. Good luck, and I'm sure the snake will be fine. :)

I'm in Norcal as well. Weather is crazy. It was nice and sunny the other day and its just horrid now.

Good luck with your move and your snake's shed.

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Yes, weather is horrid in Northern California. This Michigander really sympathizes for you guys after receiving 5 inches of snow last night. ;)

Haha! No snow for us, you win. teehee! But we're Californians! Bad weather makes us whine a lot! :P

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Well, California does get snow, but I don't think it snowed this Winter yet?? It's usually only occurs in the Northern part of the State.

Yeah, I live about as far north as you can get WITHOUT getting snow. Just below the line. We just have nasty, cold wet winters.

And you guys want to hear my day and how this move went? It's a doozy.
Woke up and my snake was nosing the glass, first time she was out of her humid hide in 2 weeks, so immediately I knew she had finally shed over the night and was at the glass looking for her next meal after all that hard work. She has also taken a gigantic crap, so all of her pipes were empty, perfect for a move. My plan was to get her back up hear and feed her, no trouble.

Well I get to my apartment and get this.... HALF of my lights don't work and half of the outlets are dead. Seriously? So one circuit is down, and conveniently it is the one I plug my UTHs into AND the one with my television. It is NOT the one with my internet is plugged into, thankfully, or I would loose my mind.

So I had to set my tank up in my BEDROOM were I found a working plug, there is also no rhyme or reason to the ones that are working. My fridge works, but not my kitchen light. The plug next to my bed works, but not by bedroom light. The bathroom light works, but not the bathroom plugs.... ?!?!???!??!!:rage:

My landlord is not in the office on weekends, so I left a message and I am sure they will get to within the next month. :mad:

I guess I should count my blessings and be grateful I do have HALF of my power or my poor little snake would be living in 15qt tub with a 40 hour heat pack for the weekend. Now I'm going to try and run an extension cord from the television to a working outlet.....

Soooo now would be a good time for me to chime in i think "haha sucks to be you!"
Im jk lol, but that does really suck. You shouldnt have to pay as much for utilities though until your problem gets fixed.

haha! I was very pleasantly surprised that I got a call back informing me that my fuse box is in my closet. The closet light happened to be one that was out AND the batteries in my flashlight died as soon as I turned it on, so I had to grope through the dark with my cell phone as a light. I peered through my pants, and low and behold, there was a fusebox in the most impractical location and height imaginable. Crisis averted. It was indeed a "sucks to be you" kind of day. :P I bought myself a cheeseburger and Mountain Dew and felt sorry for myself. hahaha.

Talk about "first world" problems. "Only HALF of my electricity worked for a few hours!! I hate my life!"