One of the main reasons I'm not taking advice from this forum regarding heating, is because none of it makes logical sense. For example, I have two whites tree frogs, and am on frog forum. Well, they constantly tell me that my frogs need fecal tests and that my substrate is bad. I have had these frogs for a year now and they are happy and healthy, while another person on the forum did all the stuff I didn't, including fecal testing, and giving her frogs medications. One of her frogs has died, and the others are sick.
I shared that example because it proves that less is more. You do not need extra all the time. My snake will not die nor does he even care if I don't get a thermostat.
In the wild, ball pythons come across all sorts of different temperatures, including low and high. Having a constant ambient temp of 80 provides no way for Marshall to escape unwanted heat, hence the reason for a hot side and a cool side.
Yes the heat pad itself is about 120f. On the surface inside the cave where Marshall lays is 90-92f.
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