After listening to this fully, I definitely agree with a lot of this. If you think about it, any tropical/sub-tropical species of snake in the wild will never truly "bask" under 90 deg heat. Multiple layers of jungle canopy don't allow for hot spots and cool spots, making an appropriate ambient temp the most important factor.
I do think though that the dogmatic hot and cool spot husbandry is likely a result of something that "worked" and became standard.
So, with this theory, you could simply keep ambient temps in a snake room at 80 deg and have unheated racks?
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