I decided to venture into the snake world a few months ago. I found a beautiful male ball python, and my daughter and I fell in love with him. He was sweet, and ate very well at his first feeding. He was fairly active and seemed to be a pretty happy guy. A few weeks ago we moved in with my boyfriend and his sons. I should mention I did not have central air in my apartment so he was kept in the living room...toasty and humid, I had to use the heat lamp minimally once the weather warmed up. Well with the air conditioning I was keeping his heat lamp on and knew I needed to get an under the tank heater, but thought the lamp was sufficient temporarily as I was planning to get him a larger enclosure. Over the weekend he seemed abnormally aggravated (hissing and snappy), and was "sunning" his neck in front of the heat lamp quite a bit. He was really active, but refused to eat. We woke up Saturday morning to a dead snake. I have no idea what happened. Could it have been the cooler temps? Am I complete idiot and missed something?