98 will not burn a snake. It takes longer periods of over 100 to do that the problem is snakes cannot regulate temps so when too hot of too cool the digestion shuts down. It is questionable that at 98 a ball could completely digest food.

OP to me it just looks like a young ball with semi translucent scales on the belly. I don't think it looks out of the ordinary. I believe you are looking at the liver, the organs are much closer to the surface than in people.

Accurites are not different from other cheap thermometers they all use a resistive sensor and the slop in manufacturing gives an accuracy range of 4 degrees (2 up 2 down)


They typically are somewhere inside this range, unless you alter the electrical resistance like adding more wire to the probe of getting something that has salt or ammonia on the probe (pee).

I guess it depends on what your idea of accurate is. For me 0.5ºF up or down is the end of accurate and the beginning of inaccurate. You get what you pay for, accurate is not going to be cheap. ( under 75$)