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Old 09-28-04, 02:08 PM   #1
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insense/candles

Just wondering, is burning insense or candles in a room with a snake harmful to the animal? I just moved my corn into my room, and realized that it may not be a good idea for me to burn candles and such.....something I do a lot.


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Old 09-28-04, 02:17 PM   #2
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Snakes have an inherent fear of fire, and smoke, and burning incense you do so, it will probably freak them out, so I would say keep the snake in a different room, or stop burning the incense. Candles on the other hand I burn, and they dont produce as much smoke, but I would still keep the candles away from the BP enclosure when I burn them.

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I wouldn't worry too much. I've burned incense quite a bit and no ill effects to my herps. Most of them are lizards, just one snake, he's quite mellow and doesn't really care about anything.
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I can't imagine that incence is a very good thing to be burning in the same room as any pet. It makes me sneeze something fierce, so I don't want to expose my pets to it.

Candles wouldn't be too bad, as long as the smoke trail after blowing them out was extinguished.
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Candles have been known to kill birds.

Incense is pretty aggrevating to the lungs, it is after all a smoke, and quite a number of snakes (colubrids) have only one functioning lung.
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reptiles and incents

hello all, i was wondering can incent smoke be harmful to reptiles?

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Old 10-03-04, 05:23 PM   #8
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smoke of any kind is extremely harmful to herps.
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Old 10-03-04, 06:27 PM   #9
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Smoke is dangerous to any organisum eventually..
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Old 10-03-04, 06:28 PM   #10
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So is alcohol, but that doesn't stop most of us :P

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Yes Aidan but we do it to ourselves on purpose. Hell I chainsmoke Camel lights, but ya know, its my choice (and a hideous addiction). I don't smoke in my house, because that would mean the snake, and more importantly my child, WOULDNT have a choice.
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reptiles and cented candles.

Are cented candles dangerous around reptiles. I know that you can't burn them with birds around but what about reptiles?
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I know, I know, it's just a joke. I agree with you totally.

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but also, herps are actually far more sensitive to smoke than mammals are. they die of smoke inhalation rather quickly.
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Old 10-03-04, 08:05 PM   #15
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no. all smoke is dangerous to herps.
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