Quote Originally Posted by mackynz View Post
That's not true whatsoever. Our internal body temp is 98F if your extremities are that warm there is probably something wrong. Plus you don't know how warm the room the person is in is, if it's cool the water will feel warmer. You don't know how good the circulation in their hands is either. Mine are always cold for example, usually about 10F lower than other people (Yes I have checked, I'm weird).

By your logic you would have to ingest the water and see if it feels warm in your stomach. As you said at the end, thermometer is the best way to check.

Please don't tell people their surface temp is 98F, it's just silly.
I think you are missing the point of my advice. Obviously, you know better than to soak your snake in water that is bath water warm. But I don't think it's reasonable to assume that everyone knows that. The point I was trying to make (which it appears I did a poor job of) was that saying "soak your snake in warm water" isn't a very good description. It wouldn't surprise me at all if an inexperienced keeper read that and went with bath water temp water, which is way too hot. The pool I swim in is always 82-85, and it doesn't .necessarily feel warm, but that's a perfectly reasonable temp for a snake (not saying put the snake in the pool, just needed an example).