Quote Originally Posted by 8_Ball View Post
My last rant I swear.

1. The ground stays warmer at night, those termite mounds are deep.
2. Just because the lows can hit the low 70s during some seasons I don't see why the snakes have to be subjected to those temperatures year round. So corn snakes are found in Maryland. The lows there are 30-40 degrees in the winter. Am I going to keep a corn at 40 degrees ambient?
3. I'm content with my lows in the low 80's like most folks on here are
1.So they stay underground during the night and hunt in the day?
2.Just because the lows only go down to the 60s I don't see why our lows would be in the 80s. Colubrids are totally different.
3.To each their own we will agree to disagree.

Don't get me wrong I am not ranting. However there is more then just caresheets to think about. They are old and outdated and people need to think about the whole picture. You say it is impossible to keep a healthy ball python with an ambient less then 75. Yet mine are high 60s to low 70s. I have about 100 ball pythons and have hatched I don't know how many 100s of snakes. A ball python won't get ri with a hot spot and these ambient temps. Again they self regulate. They know what they need and can take care of their needs better then we can.