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We got home last night, after a half-hour drive through blustery snow, to find that our power was out! When our power goes out, so does our house's heater. So our house was around 50 degrees (Farenheit) for most of the day while we were at work!
We asked the neighbors, who said it had been off since 9AM, which makes it 10 hours with no power. My two BPs were freezing cold when we walked in the house, and I immediately took them from their cages and held them to try to warm them.
Their tongues were flicking in/out of their mouths so slowly! And their skin felt cold as ice. I felt so bad for them.
Soon we got the kerosene heater kicking, though, and I put their cages right near it, and things warmed up. In an hour, the power went on, and their heatpads heated right up, and soon things were normal. Both of them look fine this morning.
We get power-outs quite frequently in this hick town. Is it possible that BPs can die if exposed to 50-degree temps for a long time?
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*~Ginevive~*

I don't know the answer to your question exactly but one day when I was adjusting my heating equipment and it was a bit cool in the house I put the pythons in a pillow case and put them IN my sweater then stuck thier thermometer probe in there just out of curiousity. If one does not mind squirming snakes in their shirt it is possible for the temp to get up over 86 degrees F. If I had to choose between dead snakes and squirming I'd take squirming any day.

I was a sight for sore eyes last night, having two pythons in my shirt and stumbling around in darkness, lighting candles. Once they heated up a bit, they squirmed around quite a bit, luckily I did not burn the house down while lighting the heater and candles, lol. Once the kerosene heater turned the temp to about 80 degrees in the room, I put them back in their cages and like clockwork, the power went back on.
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*~Ginevive~*