Temperature

[captainjack0000]

Alright, so I have a couple of corns. They're each in their own 20L with heat pad at night and a low watt bulb during the day. I have absolutely no husbandry issues. They're happy as can be.

I live in Florida and spend many hours away from the apartment while at work. I usually turn the AC setting to 77 while I'm away. I also have a ball python with a warm spot in her tank up towards 90, so having part of her tank as low as 77 during the day doesn't seem to be an issue.

For the corns, this puts one side of their tanks down to 77 and the other is usually in the upper 80s.

I was wondering, could I safely eliminate the low watt heat bulbs for the corns and just set my AC to 79 or 80? They wouldn't exaclty be able to regulate temp because the entire tank would be 80, but I can't imagine them overheating. I could keep the heat lamps on, but that seems too hot to me.

I'm sure my BP wouldn't mind a few more degrees during the day too.

It just seems counter intuitive to run my AC only to have a heat lamp on my snakes.

[ls1221]

yeah thats fine a ambient temp will work and these guies are pretty tolerant to temps and what not, i have had my corn for about 5 yrs and at first i had a lamp on him but then i had to turn it off at night an it ended pu getting a pain so i just use a UTH and hes solid. the temps in the room hes in vary from around 77-80 and he happy.

[Dracoluna]

It won't bother your corns as long as the other side doesn't get overly hot and they have plenty of water. If you notice them hanging out in the water bowl a lot, it may be indicating that they are getting too warm. My big male has done this during the summer when I let the house get to 80 or so. Also, they eat more if it's consistently warmer so if you're trying to get weight on either of them, you'll have to feed a bit more often. Other than that, I'm pretty sure corns are the most forgiving snake I've ever seen.