Urgent help: Enclosure smoke/burn
Greetings sSnakeSs forum and thank you for this friendly, helpful and great community.
Earlier today I encountered an unusual(and stupid/careless) problem as I decided to change the water in my Blood Python's enclosure. She was doing her thing as usual and burying herself within the substrate provided with her head sticking out. I decided to place my heating basking spot(which I rarely use since she has a heating pad on one side of the enclosure) on top of her enclosure and left it there for three to four minutes tops before going in to check on her and noticed that it started burning the plastic on the enclosure from above and causing some smoke. I noticed that she was feeling the affects as she was slowly popping out of her buried spot.
I immediately took her out and placed her on my bed for a good 5 minutes till the sickening smell of the smoke went off and opened all the windows to allow the air outside to take its course. Shortly after I sent her back in and she immediately rushed into her hiding spot only to find her less than an hour later out of it and buried in a different spot slightly close to where she used to be prior to this incident. I must add that she's a juvenile/baby that I purchased a week ago and she successfully ate last Friday.
I'm extremely worried about what happened, is the smoke she most likely inhaled going to harm her?, is she going to be fine from this experience or will she feel stressed and uncomfortable within her enclosure?
Would highly appreciate any help and comments. Thank you for reading.
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