Why does she insist on being so cold?

[zina10]

Let me ask you a question. If your snake would ONLY hang out on the warm side of the tank, would you then raise the temperature and keep raising it ? Because obviously your snake "wants to be hot" since it only stays on the warm end..

Obviously (or hopefully) you would NOT do that. You would harm your snake. Just like you are harming your snake by letting the cold end get to cold. Just because the damage won't be as quick as having her burn on the hot side, doesn't mean there won't be damage.

So your reasoning is, if she got to cold, she would move to the warm side to keep from getting sick ? Hm, well, what about the many snakes that stay on the "to hot" sides, to the point of burning, without moving to the cold side ?

Maybe sometimes they don't realize what is good for them or not ? Or to late ?

And really, you "know" what she wants ? Just based on behavior ?

You know, there could be a million reasons why she is avoiding the warm end suddenly. It could be a smell, something not noticeable to you, but to her. It could be some low "current" from electricity. Just some electric buzz going through an area. Or sound waves. Or something scared her on that side one time.

You are not in her brain. Like I said, there could be many reasons "why" they do the things they do.

Like Sully said, the temperature range, humidity range etc was not just decided on by a few people on a wild whim. That is simply the needs this species have based on where they come from. And it has already been well established what happens when those needs aren't met. Its nothing good.

Now its quite obvious you will do what you want to do and to heck with all good advice. You "know" what she wants and what she wants is whats best for her.

There is absolutely no "biological" reason why she would "want" to get far colder then any Ball Python should get.

So continue to do as you wish and one can only hope that it won't be the snake paying the price for it.