Too hot for my snakes?

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Well depending on you live if the ambient temps in the room are warm enough from it being hot outside you can turn all the heat off and just use that ambient heat to keep everyone warm. Many large breeders don't use uth or lamps or rhps they will just heat the entire reptile room/facility to a certain temp and that's all in the summer time in Nashville when it's like 100+ degrees I turn off all heat to my racks and let the ambient a keep them warm.


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I live in sunny and HOT south Florida lol it seems this room happens to be the warmest in the house!

100 is way too hot. Not sure about KSB as I don't own any but I know my BP girl actually prefers her 78 cool side over her 90 warm side unless she has eaten. My boas are the same. Everyone seems to like it around 80 unless they eat, then they sit in the 90 side for a couple days. The only one who likes it 100 is my beardie. If your ambient is 80, I would just run a UTH on a Herpstat or VE and set it for 90. That would give your BPs a hot spot but not raise the ambient temp.

I'm surprised your snakes aren't sitting in their water bowls at 100 ambient. Last summer my sunglow would curl up in her bowl cause she was small enough. My 6' Colombian girl would just put her head and neck in the bowl to try and cool off and my BP just sat on the cool end outside the hide lol. And the ambient in the room was high 80s or low 90s, cant remember now but it was hot. And you want to be careful, too hot and you can cause neurological problems in your snake like corkscrewing and stuff which might or might not go away when you cool them.

I turned off the heat last night for everyone to have a cool off. I'm busy checking Temps again. This time, ambient is 80° because I have one hell of a powerful fan. I ran the hot spot on one BP, and it came to 90°. The fact that it gets hotter than that makes me paranoid, so I promptly turned it off again. He won't go near that end of the cage signifies that it's too hot. It's feeding day, but I don't want to overheat the kids.
I am also astonished nobody crawled into water bowls! They were very antsy, though. "Mum, we're uncomfortable!" I did get poos out of this, though! 😉 back to the drawing board. At least they can sit at ambient temperature and stay healthy!