Quote Originally Posted by Kaorte View Post
Not to mention they are used for the heating of HUMANS, not snakes. Your core body temp is 98.6*. Ball pythons are meant to be kept at max 94*. If you need to heat up a human, the heating source must be higher than 98.6* which is much too high for a ball python.

It will burn the snake at some point. Those human heating pads get well past 115* which could even cook the snake.
Oh I got one that runs at 110F on low - and there is a piece of cardboard, the aquarium glass and the repicarpet to dissipate the heat.
Still... perhaps a repi UTH would be better.