Oh good catch, I totally forgot about the T-stats lol. I'm so used to T-stats as being a given nowadaysI too use Herpstats and Hydrofarms. Personally the Hydrofarms work good imo. I'm using one to run an RHP and it works fine. It isn't as precise as a Herpstat but a couple degrees aren't going to hurt your snake. Nature isn't a prefect 87F 24/7. And as for a UTH, I personally am not a huge fan of them and don't use them on any of my snakes. As long as you keep the ambient temps right, you will be fine. I have my ambients set to 87F on the hot side for all of my snakes and the cool side is around 82F and like I said, I don't run any UTH and they are all fine and eat like food is going extinct tomorrow. If you got the height, you can throw in a branch for them to sit on. Most BCI do like to sit on stuff. My little sunglow has a pvc perch I made her and she climbs up it and hangs out on it at night. Rosey, my big BCI likes to sit on the couch back or hang off the edges of the bed looking down at the floor. Guess it makes her feel like she is up in the air. During dinner time, she likes to grab the rat outside the cage door and then hang down almost to the floor holding the rat in her coil while eating it. Her cage is almost 3' off the ground. I'm waiting for the day she loses grip with her tail while doing that and falls on the floor lol. And yes offer hides but some boas wont use them. As I said before, Rosey only uses hides when she is going into shed because she gets cranky and gets antisocial. Vicky uses hides still because she is a baby. Rosey used hides as a baby too but at about 4ft long she quit using them and started pushing them aside so she could sleep next to them.
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