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hayleyb93
Hatchling

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Posted - 30/04/2010 :  19:42:52  Show Profile  Visit hayleyb93's Homepage  Click to see hayleyb93's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
Hey was on National Geographic channel and found this.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/07/060724-snake-blanket.html

Snake must have been pretty hungry to continue eating the rabbit when the blanket was around it, not good.


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Sta~ple
qeeun speler

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Posted - 30/04/2010 :  19:56:04  Show Profile  Click to see Sta~ple's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
Why do people use heat blankets for big snakes? Is there like no heat mat big enough?



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hayleyb93
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Posted - 30/04/2010 :  20:00:14  Show Profile  Visit hayleyb93's Homepage  Click to see hayleyb93's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
i was gonna say thats why you dont use a blanket, but heat mats cant be folded and stuff...so how would you get one big enough from the shop to your house. there must be something...surely a blanket isnt good.


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matty18714
The Count of Corniness

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Posted - 30/04/2010 :  20:18:42  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thats why I dont like the clothes in the viv method of calming a snake down.

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Sta~ple
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Posted - 30/04/2010 :  20:25:00  Show Profile  Click to see Sta~ple's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
Surely there's a speciality that makes heat mats that can fold or that they join together. A heat blanket is not sensible and it would be hard to wash. I guess they could use many heat mats and seal them all together and then seal them all down to the floor. Or, get a load of bulbs or something.



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matty18714
The Count of Corniness

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Posted - 30/04/2010 :  20:28:04  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
You would never heat a snake that big with heat mats. You would use either bulbs or ceramic heat plates.

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hayleyb93
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Posted - 30/04/2010 :  20:32:49  Show Profile  Visit hayleyb93's Homepage  Click to see hayleyb93's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
ah right, that makes more sense, so the heating it with an electric blanket was a bad idea?


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reptiledanny
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Posted - 30/04/2010 :  20:39:45  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
why would the snake wont to eat a blanket anyway?


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hayleyb93
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Posted - 30/04/2010 :  20:44:25  Show Profile  Visit hayleyb93's Homepage  Click to see hayleyb93's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
It got wrapped around the rabbit it was eating so kinda did it by accident, you would think when it felt the blanket it would top eating though.


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matty18714
The Count of Corniness

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Posted - 30/04/2010 :  20:50:47  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by hayleyb93

ah right, that makes more sense, so the heating it with an electric blanket was a bad idea?



Well it ended up in the snakes stomache......

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hayleyb93
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Posted - 30/04/2010 :  21:13:57  Show Profile  Visit hayleyb93's Homepage  Click to see hayleyb93's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
oh dear, i dare say i just got owned.


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hillzi
The Lost boy.

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Posted - 30/04/2010 :  22:35:59  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Heard this story about the burm, shame really.

Typical burms, they're like the labradors of the snake world tbh.. food orientated and dopey

You wouldnt use heatmats as the snake could break the mat thus electrocuting itself plus i dont think you can get them massivley big anyway.
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Kellog
the nice one

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Posted - 01/05/2010 :  05:03:09  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This exact article came up in another topic - http://www.thecornsnake.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9180&SearchTerms=xray....and I think that Matty makes a good point about the clothes in the viv, although until I had read that thread and the article it hadnt even crossed my mind.

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