long story short because i'm on lunch break at work.. and worried.

half our collection is kept at my father's house. half at mine. i have racks with bigger tubs so the bigger animals stay with me. i go out to my dad's house once a week or so to check on the critters, usually on sunday. dad doesn't have a temperature gun, just an acurite thermometer with the probe taped to the center of the heat tape on the middle shelf so he can get a second reading on the temps. he always checks the temps on that, but not each individual shelf.

anyway, i went out there sunday to see them all and when i went to pull out our female queenspin i noticed she was REALLY warm and not acting right. her body was kinda limp and her motor skills were way off. she never showed very much of the spider wobble but now she's corkscrewing like crazy and if you look at her head close enough it seems to be twitching, or more so kind of vibrating sometimes. all the other shelves seemed to be fine, so i ran home real quick to grab my temperature gun. when i got back and checked the temperatures of the heat tape all the shelves seemed just about normal, but the bottom one was up to 120 degrees in some spots, then 2 inches over it would be 80 degrees. not sure how long she had been sittin that hot, but it could've been for a couple days seeing as my dad doesn't pull the snakes out every day, just pulls out the tubs to make sure they're all still alive.

i couldn't find too much information on snakes overheating via google or the search function here, granted i'm on my phone and couldn't search too hard. i've seen that overheating can cause "the wobble" in non spider animals and that's about it.. nobody says if this is permanent or not.. as of right now she doesn't even look like she would be coordinated enough to eat. i feel so bad. basically, does anyone know if this neurological damage from overheating is permanent or if she'll eventually get better..? or god forbid.. she might not make it..?

i have some video on my phone of me shooting the drastic temperature variance with the temp gun and some of her head "vibrating" and her horrible wobble now.. if i can figure out how to get it uploaded to the internet when i get home i'll try posting it.
i just hope she's gonna be ok..