Quote Originally Posted by Kodieh View Post
Paper towels are fine for ball pythons same as Leo's. Though, like yourself, the geckos are on paper towels and the snakes are on aspen.

The dimmer "would" work, however it won't flux and move with the room. So, if the air conditioner fails, then the room spikes to 90, the cage is heated on top of that, so like 110F. Bad news for snakeypoo.
Yeah I suppose that could happen although I'm not in a hot climate or anything (I think we are basically done with temps over 85F for the summer, we actually haven't been using the A/C all month), I'd be more worried about temp dips at night, but that shouldn't be a huge issue eh? I'm a stay at home mom, so I'm basically home all day, except for maybe an hour here and there. I'll definitely look into the thermostat though, but will probably use a dimmer in the mean time and just keep it to the lower end of ideal to be safe and monitor it frequently until I get one.

She's always cool to touch when I take her out, so I feel bad that she doesn't really have a way to warm herself (besides from my body heat when I hold her), I went to put the lamp on last night and the red bulb was burned out. Apparently the kid I got her from hadn't been using that either, and she'd just been at room temperature. The low on her thermometer said it only went down to 77F last night though, so that's not terrible.

On a side note I didn't know I shouldn't be messing with her or feeding her when her eyes are foggy (opps), but I have been. She's tolerated it well and she ate a thawed mouse last night. I'm torn between leaving her alone until she sheds, and just continuing what I'm doing to warm her up periodically. She hasn't been acting nervous and she's totally not head shy, I can pet her chin and head.