Do Candles Harm a Snake That Lives in the Same Room?

[RobbieBlue]

I'm getting a normal BP soon, but I have one of those scented wax melters and a few normal candles in the same room. Would that effect or make the BP sick?

[SDA]

No... wait are you putting it inside the enclosure or venting it into it?

[MD_Pythons]

I'm not sure, but you should probably put those out before you get your snake.

[dadofsix]

Sometimes, on those rare occasions when I have company over, I've used scented candles in the same room with the snakes and, thus far, haven't had a problem. I wouldn't do it all the time, however, never when I'm going to be feeding them, and I probably wouldn't do it during the summer months where the smoke residue has a better chance of getting inside the enclosures.

Any smoke has a good chance of instinctively stressing a snake, however. To an animal with very limited mobility, nearby smoke smelled by a Royal Python in the wild usually means that the day is probably not going to end well.

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[RobbieBlue]

No, they're in the same room as the cage.

[Craiga 01453]

I have candles in my snake room. I just keep them far enough away from the enclosures that there's no way the smoke billows into them.

[Booper]

I light scented candles and also joss sticks in the same room my snakes are in, and have been doing so since I got Wanda in September '16. They are about 3 m away from where I put them, and my room is well ventilated, but I've never had a problem.