Cold side too cold?

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I finally got my snake and she came with her cage. She's been in her cage for about a week now. I recently got a laser thermometer, and the cold side substrate is reading around 78 F. Ambient air is around 82. When I check her body temperature, she is around 80 F. Is the substrate temperature too cold? The warm side is perfect and hovering around 88 degrees. It's just the cold side I'm worried about. As of right now, I see no signs of wheezing or clicking, so I hope she won't get an RI.

Thanks!

[piedlover79]

I'd bump the warm side up to 90 and see if the cool side gets a few degrees bump as well.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Both temperatures are perfect and I would not touch a thing.

[chrid16371]

Warm side 88-90 and cool 78-82 so your temps are perfect. If your using a uth make sure under the substrate is no hotter than 94, if your not using uth then disregard.

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[Mizaniverse]

Warm side 88-90 and cool 78-82 so your temps are perfect. If your using a uth make sure under the substrate is no hotter than 94, if your not using uth then disregard.

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Thats where I was taking the measurements, under the substrate because Myko always pushes it away. If she does this, is it too cold? Sorry, worrywrt here 😬

[chrid16371]

Thats where I was taking the measurements, under the substrate because Myko always pushes it away. If she does this, is it too cold? Sorry, worrywrt here 😬

If your snake burrows to the bottom anyways I would leave it right there, for a snake that usually doesn't borrow I put mine a little higher and thin out substrate to get the correct temp on top of substrate.

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