King Snake in a Ball Python rack?

[Jhill001]

Based solely on feeding response, I see no issue at all. Kings are garbage disposals and I have never run into feeding issues with any of my Kings.

However, I personally would NOT run my king temps that high. You've got some great people offering experience and knowledge about your temps because they genuinely care about the animals. Your original question was vague and people offered insight based on that. That's why temps came into play with their answers. Then you came back with the temps aside thing saying your only concern was feeding response. Well, you absolutely SHOULD be concerned with temps and I would NOT advise keeping Kings at those temps you mention. I have been keeping Kings for years and my temps never get higher than mid 80s.

Not to harp but to piggy back on craig's response in regards to temps. My colubrid's only see their temps go above 83F mark if the house ends up getting that hot during the REALLY warm days of summer in Ohio. Quite frankly if I have to deal with for a week or two then they do too because I'm not wasting money on air conditioning for the 2 or 3 weeks it might actually be uncomfortable. Doesn't harm the snakes and I just open the windows when it cools down at night and make sure water changes are daily instead of my every other day or so schedule.

I might get flak for saying this but there is evidence to suggest that 90F hotspots for a ball python aren't really that necessary and you could just bump that down to the 86-87 mark and find sort of a happy medium.