Female ball python seeks contact to water bowl

[Zincubus]

https://www.ms-reptilien.de/en/equip...chaltuhr?c=480

I have my hotspots between 84 and 88 degrees. Background temp is between 82 and 84 degrees. Humidity is between 55 and 65%. Soil is Repti Chips. She often squeezes herself between the water bowl and the plastic wall of the rack. After this half an hour she goes back to one of her hides.

I could see her drinking and then slithering through the bowl a bit - 3 inches - to rest her head on the bowl or her hide beneath. Then about 2 or 3 inch of her body hang into the water, the rest is on the bowl or on the soil. When she slithers on - her tail stays in the water for two minutes then she moves on. As said before - she is not curling up her whole body in the water.

Now I may be totally wrong here but that fancy gadget in your link is new to me but it looks like a thermostat but the readings on thermostats don't always give the ACTUAL temperature of the viv floor where the snake is lying .

The crucial one to my mind is the warmest spot ( usually under the warm hide ) that the snake can lie on .

I use a digital temp gun to take random temps of all the hot / cold spots in all my vivs ..

These are nice and cheap thermometers - which must have a wired probe .




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