Having Temp Trouble

[AdamF]

My snake room is this morning is 66ºF I have insulated enclosures (energy efficient ones too) The ambients are all in the 80ºs insulation in my experience is good for 3-7º depending. I don't like blankets but instead rigid pink or blue insulation it is easy to cut and deal with and the thiner stuff is also not super expensive. Too bad about the night drop it can be used to counter the night temps. It sounds like a bulb or some sort will be needed I would suggest side turning the tank if you have the money for a bit of plexi for the door (about 25-50$ depending) It holds heat and humidity like a PVC enclosure. Ambient temps may be heated with a fluorescent bulb in the day and deep blue LED in the night.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...arium-Solution

If this is not possible I'd suggest a bulb. I would use a deep blue bulb as snakes in general and specifically royal pythons see visually from the mid 500nm to 800+nm red being 660-800 red is what they see the best. The centre of our spectrum is yellow so the idea is a yellow light (tungsten light bulb) is loosely how a snake sees deep red. When you add trigeminal nerve and het pits to the equation they clearly see deep reds and infrared and the animal is tuned for this end of the spectrum. The eye of pythons has a yellow coating (part of the spectacle scale) that blocks UV and blue light. I would use blue as they have very low visual acuity to blues.



This is completely incorrect. Geckos sure snakes not at all. Snakes are tuned for red blue is a visual neutral colour. Many have commented on snakes tracking the point of a red laser from a IR gun.
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...t=follow+laser

Any night bulb, red, black etc will work. This is CORRECT. The laser light is completely different that incandescent. This is one reason humans can stare at a red reptile bulb for some time, but will suffer serious eye damage from only a few seconds of direct laser light. Snake pits can "feel" infrared heat with their pits, but their ability to see this color with their eyes, is minimal if at all. I am of course talking about the night reptile bulbs, and not a red Xmas Tree light. If you want to start messing around with R ratings and insulation, i'm sure you can rig up something, but think about all you must to when you need to wash out the tank. Much to move, and it if the snake is in a living area, as opposed to a snake room, it will be quite the eyesore. In addition, florescent lights give off minimal heat, and are not used to generate heat. Some of the posts above are anecdotal from hobbyists, and not scientific.


http://www.nature.com/news/2010/1003....2010.122.html


http://exoticpets.about.com/cs/pytho...lpythons_2.htm