Quote Originally Posted by SDA View Post
Nope just fine. I have an ambient around 82ish and the hot side is 90 and cool side is 76. Works great. so long as the temps you just mentioned stay around that you are good to go. May need to up the RHP temp a tad to get the cool side a few degrees warmer but that's about it.
you don't think 74° F is a bit too low for someone running an RHP? i can see why OP is concerned; not about the range in temps just the 74° F.

Quote Originally Posted by SDA View Post
Now for something you might not like. Remove that skull. They can get stuck and trust me, you do not want to have to remove your snake from it. Those skulls are not meant for snake enclosures outside of really, really small reptiles of which a ball python is not.
this this this, OP. there was a recent post of a nasty injury caused by a snake squeezing into one of those which was too small.