Heat tape malfunction. Hoping our girl isn't fried..

[Badgemash]

i've caught my bee laying a little inverted before.. i see the spider wobble as well in her, but from what i could find online, overheating can cause the exact same symptoms as the spider wobble even in animals without spider in them..? i know spiders wobble can get worse or better after time, but she went from barely showing any wobble at all (except a little while feeding) to this in less than a week.. i wouldn't say i've seen several hundred in my time, just the three in my collection and the ones i've seen at shows and a couple friends'.. but none of them had the head "twitch" she has. is that common with spiders with bad wobbles?

While it's possible that it's extra spider wobble from stress, the only thing that would cause her to be stressed is the heat spike (doesn't look like anything else in her routine changed). And the abruptness of the change in behavior is alarming. IMO you're looking at neurological damage from heat spike, and she should be treated as such.

Good call on ordering new tape, looks like yours was defective which is very unfortunate, but I'm glad you caught it in time before it killed all of your snakes or burned down your dad's house.

Forgot to add: My bee likes to randomly flip onto his back about once a month and play dead, I think sometimes our snakes enjoy scaring the bejeezus out of us.