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When shipping snakes, either small or large, when the weather is hot, hot, hot, do you use an ice-pack?

>>When shipping snakes, either small or large, when the weather is hot, hot, hot, do you use an ice-pack?

Don't do like I did.
I thought since a little hatchling I was shipping wouldn't be picked up until 3:30 in the afternoon and would be at its destination by 10:30 the next morning that a normal box lined with styrofoam would suffice.
It probably would have if the package would have arrived on time but somehow it was left on the truck from 7:30 in the morning until 4:30 in the afternoon and needless to say it arrived dead.
Basically six extra hours in the back of a truck averaging 90 degrees.
So, unless you wish to be a stupid murderer like me, use a cold pack, please.
Jimmy

Dont take it out on yourself.You dont know what those goofy bastages from the shipping companies did to the box.When I was into beardies I saw the guy carrying my box and shaking it hard.I tore the young man a new sphincter and he will never forget me.