Before I get any animal I always have a plan of what to do incase the power goes out for an extended period of time. I have a few questions though about power outages and corn snakes.


1) At what temp should I start to worry and take my corn to a heated biulding( such as my high school or a friends house)?

2) Sometime there is no way to leave the house when the power goes out (tree will fall...) I had an Idea or heating up some towels in a pan of water, ringing them out, placing the towels in a sealed plastic bag and putting that in the tank either under or on top of the apen bedding. What do you think? I am able to heat the water with a propane grill that has a burner attached.

3) Sometimes the grill is at my moms house so if the power went out when she had it then the above idea would be void. 2 years ago the power went out in the middl eof the winter for a little over a week. The house reached a temp of 45 F. I asked a friend of mine that a had a young ball pythone what she did. She said she got her old sling out from wwhen she boke her collar bone, put velcroe on all the sides to shut it, put her snake in and kept the sling under her shirt. I guess that sounds like a good Idea, but would it cause too much stress to a corn?


In case you were wondering, yes my power does go out that often to where I like to have a plan of action. I dont really worry about them in the summer, but as I live in Michigan, the winter power outages are what I like to plan for.


I would really like any input you have! Please share your ideas/plans. Thanks.

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• Power outages (long) - Cation, Sat Aug 28 12:32:41 2004
• RE: Power outages (long) - jyohe, Sat Aug 28 12:37:53 2004
• RE: Power outages (long) - diggy415, Sat Aug 28 13:58:43 2004
• What JY said, plus... - kathylove, Sat Aug 28 14:30:43 2004
• RE: What JY said, plus... - Cation, Sun Aug 29 13:33:56 2004
• RE: Power outages (long) - eeor4, Sun Aug 29 02:35:40 2004
• Well just having gone through that problem here is some advice...... - Hoppy, Sun Aug 29 14:12:16 2004
• RE: Power outages (long) - iso9k, Mon Aug 30 19:10:24 2004
• Your a nutjob! - CaptainHook2, Thu Sep 16 20:44:14 2004
• RE: Power outages (long) - rudedude717, Mon Sep 6 07:59:00 2004