96 degree basking spot????

You should maintain your hot spot 88 at the lowest to 94 at the highest. (90-92 is ideal) at night it can drop some but should not dip below 80 and 85 is better. The ambient temps may or may not have much to do with the hot spot. What is your cool end hide temp? Sometimes the high ambient temp is due to high cool end temps. Check your ambient temps and drop them if they are over 86 I like to have mine between 79-83 on cold nights they sometimes are below 77 and the hottest day above 85 but that is never for long. Air temp not surface temps...

today my temps look like this,
inside the hot hide surface is 91.4 hide air temp in the hide is 90.7
inside the cool hide is surface 80.6 and ambient air in the hide is 81.1

The enclosure air temps centre over the hot side is 83.5 over the centre of the cool end is 82.5 and the dead center 1/2 up the height sides and front of the enclosure is 82.8.

I have good air flow that prevents stratification of temps so they are quite even everywhere. When the snake occupies the hide the ambient temps raises as part of the animals body blocks the door. It will raise 3 or 4 degrees in time more if the animal is digesting.

im glad i joined this site.everybody is just trying to help eachothers snakies out.and its so much easier to post a question here and have it answered by someone with alot more experience than to call all the vets and reptile stores with a slew of random questions and have them get annoyed you have such an inquisitive mind.

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Originally Posted by Keyboard Warrior

No, just because some snakes will move when its too hot, doesn't mean all of them will. Many will sit there without realizing they are being cooked alive. Thats why you need something like a temp gun, to measure how hot the heat pad actually is, how hot the glass is, and how hot the substrate they are basking on is.

Before I would take the heat pad up to 100 because the substrate wouldn't get hot enough below that. But my BP likes to dig under the thin layer of substrate. He would then be touching the glass that is 100 degree's. So a good rule of thumb is to make sure that glass is not above 95 degrees.

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i use heat tape and a RHP. Under my hot hide I use a piece of reptile carpet that way my Bp’s can never touch the bottom of the PVC enclosure. The rest of the set up is coconut. My hot spot stays around 88-90 and the ground temps on the outside of the hot are usually 85 and tapers down to 75 as I you get further towards the cold hide.

Hope this helps

If its a BP, that's too hot

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Originally Posted by Phantom1987

i use heat tape and a RHP. Under my hot hide I use a piece of reptile carpet that way my Bp’s can never touch the bottom of the PVC enclosure. The rest of the set up is coconut. My hot spot stays around 88-90 and the ground temps on the outside of the hot are usually 85 and tapers down to 75 as I you get further towards the cold hide.

Hope this helps

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Consideting the thread is 8 years old and the person you are responding to has not been on the forum since July 2011, I would say no.