Burned to death

[lampie]

The one day I went to school and when I came back from school only to hear my Crossmark whip snake coiled and sqeezed around the lightbulb whitch broke and the snake burned and my father went in the room to see the halfdead snake and a broken light so he had to kill it before it suffers unneccesary .

[Uromastyx]

Sorry to hear that.

Go to any good pet shop and buy a Repta Round Cage. a Normal house bulb will fit in the CRXS.
I think it stands for: cage round xtra small

[it_bit_me]

Jisso buddy that is an awfull way to go.
Did you have any precautions in place?

[lampie]

Yes I do I built mesh cages to put around the bulb

[kfc223]

What type of bulb is it?

[lampie]

Sorry can't remember the make , but it was just a cheapy I bought at a hardware store

[it_bit_me]

Add a pic of your setup so we can give some better advice.

[Jamster]

I dont think the bulb would break because the snake coiled around it... I do know however that with cheap bulbs they can sometimes blow and actually pop off the screw or bayonet metal part itself. This then could have killed the snake. With thin snakes like this species i used to use a large glass jar that would screw over the bulb. The snake then cant get to the bulb and also the jar has too big a diameter for the snake to coil around.

[lampie]

Don't have any pics it happened two years ago

[kfc223]

Ok...