being i work in a rest home i have caught a horrible cold.... i have a vaporizer, i want to use it but i want to make sure fisrt that if i do use it it wont have any type of bad effect on my snakes?
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vaporizers and snakes
raisnok
Nov 13, 2005 03:47 PM
Replies (3)
draybar
Nov 13, 2005 05:09 PM
>>being i work in a rest home i have caught a horrible cold.... i have a vaporizer, i want to use it but i want to make sure fisrt that if i do use it it wont have any type of bad effect on my snakes?
won't be a problem unless you have it next to your snake tank
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KJUN
Nov 15, 2005 12:19 PM
Actually, if you are putting any tyupe of medicine, etc. in it, I'd be more cautious. I won't even use air spray in a room because I know of one brand killing a friends snakes in the past. Remember that snakes can be more sensitive to something than humans, have only ONE lung to breath through, and weight a LOT less so dosages can be an OD to them without you knowing about it. Actually, I would say DON'T DO IT. Heck, I knew of a neighbor (NOT A FRIEND!) that bought a healthy snake, had it for a while, decided to smoke pot in his bedroom, and the smoke apparently killed the snake overnight. Weak inference only, but enough to make me leary of ANYTHING in the air that COULD hurt a snake.
The list of chemicals in the air that I've seen or heard about (second hand or worse) that apparently caused, or could have caused, herp mortality is very scarey. Avoid it as MUCH as possible. In decades of keeping herps of many species, THAT is my take home message.
Your mileage may vary....
KJ
raisnok
Nov 17, 2005 08:15 PM
thats was why i asked i was kind of scared to use it in the bedroom since the snakes are in there......and i know they are more sensitive to such things, so i have moved out of the bedroom til my cold is gone, and into the living room so i could turn the vaporizer on, and shut the room door... thats for the info though, because i was leary of the room sprays, the only one i have actually used in my home has been odoban, because it also disinfects, and i use it where the cats litter box is and in the living room......only scent i have in the bed room is either lavendar or gardenia and they are from live plants
