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    Question 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.



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



    Furion, the 6 month old spinner child. ^




    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.
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    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

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    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.
    Other Snakes:
    Hudson 1988 1.0 Colombian rainbow; Yang 2002 1.0 Corn snake; Merlin 2000 1.0 Solomon Island ground boa; Kett 2015 1.0 Diamond Jungle Jaguar carpet python; Dakota 2014 0.0.1 Children’s python

    Ball pythons:
    Eli 1990 1.0 Normal; Buttercup 2015 1.0 Albino; Artemis 2015 0.1 Dragonfly; Orion 2015 1.0 Banana Pinstripe; Button 2018 1.0 Blue Eyed Lucy; Piper 2018 0.1 Piebald; Belle 2018 0.1 Lemonblast; Sabrina 2017 0.1 Mojave; Selene 2017 0.1 Banana Mojave; Loki 2018 1.0 Pastel Mystic Potion; Cuervo 2018 1.0 Banana Piebald; Claude 2017 1.0 Albino Pastel Spider; Penelope 2016 0.1 Lesser

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    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.

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    Here's a great source for information on how to move with reptiles.

    https://shipyourreptiles.com/pages/25-september-2018
    Judy
    Director of Accounts at ShipYourReptiles

    email: Judy@ShipYourReptiles.com

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