Going away over christmas - feeding/water

[Fiona74]

I am going to be away from 21/12 to 29/12 then home but then going away again on 3/01/09 for about 1.5 weeks. (Pain in the bum)
I am planning on feeding 2 weeks b4 I go (that would make it the 7th Dec) but wondering if it will be ok to leave them until I get back after the January break to feed again. That would be around the 14th/15th Jan. Is this too long to leave my 2 snakes without food during summer? I can get my dad to check in on them for water but the least I have to ask him to do the better.
I have a 2 y/o spotted and he isn't my concern it's my 10 month old bredli who is still in a click clack.
What do you guys suggest?

 

[scorps]

Give them both a huge feed and they should be fine.

 

[Snake_Whisperer]

Feed them the day before you leave in both instances. They'll be just fine. Definately going to need a watering in there though.

 

[mcloughlin2]

I'd suggest making sure both snakes are in enclosures large enough for a chinese container with water. If no one is going to be in the house for the duration your away I'd also suggest turning the themostats down on the cages because the hosue will heat up on summer days with not aircon, fans and windows open.

 

[pythonmum]

Have your dad top up water and change it if it's got poo in it. It might be best to put down a layer of Breeder's Choice to better aborb moisture. Even when not eating, ours do wees - esp the Antaresia. You might try giving the Bredl 3 feeds in the next fortnight before stopping. It will be fine as long as it doesn't get too hot.

 

[Inlandtaipan078]

Check state law's

keep in mind if your dad's there and the power's that be turn up kiss your collection goodbye:?

 

[Fiona74]

keep in mind if your dad's there and the power's that be turn up kiss your collection goodbye:?

Surely that wouldn't be a problem. The snakes are still at the allocated address, what diff does it make if someone else is watering them.

 

[dickyknee]

keep in mind if your dad's there and the power's that be turn up kiss your collection goodbye:?

Why would it be a problem if some one else is in his house ??

 

[bubbaloush]

keep in mind if your dad's there and the power's that be turn up kiss your collection goodbye:?

I don't get why this would cause an issue to warrant the snakes being taken, surely they understand people go on holidays and leave the care to a relative or friend.

I tbh would be turning off the heat to your tank if your not going to be there monitoring it or cooling the house down, we last summer had days that although the aircon was running it didn't get full affect into where the snakes were so turned their heat off so the temps didn't get too high because you would hate to lose a snake due to heat.

 

[notechistiger]

Why would you even need to feed them? They can go 1.5 weeks without food easy.