Small scare last night

[sur3fir3]

With an apartment you're a bit limited in what you can do for power/heat; you're not firing up a generator or anything like that.

If all you have are the two snakes in your profile and it's brutally cold out, I would put them both in secure tubs in the bathroom along with the small "Mr. Buddy" propane heater which is designed for use in small spaces to keep your snakes at an ambient temp of about 80*F. This will also help keep your pipes from freezing. This time of year I probably wouldn't do anything unless I knew the we would be without power for more than a day, like after a hurricane or bad thunderstorm with widespread outages.

Also a tip: you can make warm/hot water easily during the summer by putting it into a dark container in direct sunlight.

Here it is the opposite. It runs 99 - 115 during the day. I was thinking of getting some of the shipping cold and hot packs, and packaging the snakes up in a snake bag, and then put the snakes inside a tub with the appropriate heat/cold pack. It usually doesn't get below 40F in the winter, or I can put them in a Styrofoam cooler with the appropriate heat/cold pack. Of course the pack will not be accessible to the snake.

I am just not sure what to setup in case of an emergency. I'm sure the battery backup would last for a few hours, but for anything long term I need to have some sort of solution. Where I live the power never goes out, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

Do you guys think this would work as an emergency backup? I can always test this once I get everything I need, and see what the temps are in the cooler with the packs. So when the power goes out I have about 5 or 6 hours before the temps drop to a point where it needs to be supplemented.

I guess if the power at the house will be off for an extended period of time I can always get a room at a roach motel.

In the short term I would need to worry about cooling off to room temp. In the long term I have to worry about over heating.