Snake Sitters

[jsmorphs2]

I've left adult BPs for about 5 days in the past. I came home to horrible messes though and now we have a lot of little guys. I'll feed them before we leave but I'd like to know someone will be checking on them. Our males like to spill their water all the time too.

Yeah, it's incredibly hard to find people to watch your collection. Trust me. I actually "reptile sit" quite often for customers at my store, currently am. I will be at the wheaton show this weekend if you would like to chit chat about it! Depending on how far away you are from me, I wouldn't mind helping you out at all!

You're sooo awesome for offering to help out! I didn't think I would get such thoughtful responses. I think we have a plan though! We asked my fiance's brother if he would come over every other day to check on them (spot clean and water). He has owned burms in the past and is also in construction so if there are any issues with thermostats/heat tape he should be able to figure it out. I didn't think he would do it cause he's always busy. Crisis averted! (I hope).

There's a good possibility I'll be at the Wheaton show as well, and I'm totally willing to help out. I'm in the Tinley Park area, and I've watched reptiles several times as well. I'm sure there's someone close by to lend a helping hand!

Thank you for offering to help out! You guys are all totally awesome!

If it's only a week, you should be 100% fine. I've done a few 7 or 8 day trips and nothing has gone remotely bad. When I did my 30 day euro trip I actually had a friend from bp.net help me out!

Depending on how many snakes you've got and how you'd want to handle it, I could easily help out. I'm in Lemont.

Thank you too for offering to help!

As mentioned one week is probaly fine for a snake to be alone if your husbandry is dialed in. Now if you are waiting on eggs then thats a different story. Lizards on the other hand would need to be monitored but snakes should be fine. Now two weeks or longer you will probably need to feed or at least clean up so length of trip is key.

That's another thing, we have a girl that ovulated a about a week ago. She hasn't shed yet but is soaking. I counted down 45 days after ovy. and that's April 21st. We wanted to leave April 23rd. That's cutting it close. So if she lays before we leave I won't be too worried, he would just have to check the temps but if she lays after we leave, he will have to set up the egg box. I would re-make a box for him but man, I would be worried about that. This is an important clutch too (possibly pieds). I shouldn't worry, I'll just have to give him some classes before we leave. Practice with chicken eggs .