Snake staying on cool side

[treeboa]

mine does the same thing. she is usually on her cool side in the daytime. I'm assuming it gets too hot in her other hide during the day but I've Blacked out her whole tank so she is fine. it is weird though because I've read stories where snakes have no idea how to regulate their own body temperature and always burn themselves and mine seems to be almost too good at it... haha. guess we got smarties

Usually the burns are the result of the snake having to choose between being too cold or too hot. I mean a cage that has an ambient temp of like 70F and a hot rock or heat pad of 120F. They will usually choose to be too hot and get burned in the process.

To the OP, your temp on the hot side might not be what you think. If you're using a stick on type thermometer, especially. These are never accurate. A good temp gun or digital thermometer is much better.