fellow ball python keepers...

Just curious about what temps you keep your ball pythons at and how you heat their cages.

I keep mine right around 90° on the warm side and I use a UTH, on a t-stat of course. Sometimes if the room gets a little cool I use a 25 watt red light bulb, and the cool side is upper 70's to low 80's. I also use an infrared heat gun. Useful for spot checking temps :gj:

I don't provide a hot spot from May to September/October the rest of the year when I do it's at 88

Belly heat at 91*F on the warm side, the cool side is a degree or so above ambient room temp.

Belly heat with UTH. The hot side is at 90, ambients range from 80-82

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Originally Posted by Deborah

I don't provide a hot spot from May to September/October the rest of the year when I do it's at 88

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Just curious why no hot spot from May thru October? Something to do with brumation? Also what do you maintain your ambient temperature at during this time?

Belly heat with heat tape at 90F and have RHP providing ambient temp which is at 80F.

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Originally Posted by albinos_rule

Just curious why no hot spot from May thru October? Something to do with brumation? Also what do you maintain your ambient temperature at during this time?

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Because my animals are kept in a room right under the roof and by cutting the AC off the room achieve 86/88 on it's on.

I run my snake room at no cost and it is more efficient than trying to cool a room that is at 88 degrees down to 76 to than provide a hot spot.

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Originally Posted by Deborah

Because my animals are kept in a room right under the roof and by cutting the AC off the room achieve 86/88 on it's on.

I run my snake room at no cost and it is more efficient than trying to cool a room that is at 88 degrees down to 76 to than provide a hot spot.

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So you maintain the room temp at 86-88°? That would mean the entire enclosure would be at that temp, right? If so do they not need a cooler area in their enclosure say more like 80°?

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So you maintain the room temp at 86-88°? That would mean the entire enclosure would be at that temp, right? If so do they not need a cooler area in their enclosure say more like 80°?

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That makes the enclosure at 85/87

They are fine with higher ambient temp and no hot spot many breeders including large breeders such as the barkers have been using ambient temp and ambient temp alone, it just needs to be high enough.

Trying to maintain 86/88 or even 85 as a ambient temp and not provide a hot spot is not something everyone can do, I do so because it makes sense to do something efficient energy wise, during the winter it would be inefficient and the cost would be high to try to maintain those temps for the entire room so I use an ambient temp of 76 and hot spot of 88.

If you ambient temp is 76 or low 80 you will obviously need to provide a hot spot and a gradient.