Corn snake enclosure setup and heating

[BillyBlanco]

High 60's at night is actually fine for a corn snake, as long as you have a good UTH on one end of the cage with hides on warm & cool sides. Corn mostly
prefer temps about 70-73* & use UTH as needed for digestion. What are the day time temps in your room? Be careful you don't over-heat a corn snake,
they aren't like BPs at all. (I currently have 5, & have raised quite a few in previous years.) The nice thing about many colubrids is that you don't have to
be so worried about the whole cage being so warm. During the day, & only IF you need a little more warmth, use a low wattage incandescent light with a
dimmer (rheostat) control switch in an over-head dome-light fixture, but this is best for when your corn snake gets bigger since hatchlings aren't always brave
enough for branches, but as corn & many rat snakes grow, they love branches. Again, just don't over-do the heat, the area in the cage over the UTH should
not exceed 85*, & unless you live in an igloo you want the UTH to be roughly one sixth of the cage floor.

I work 3rd so I'm up at night but when I'm not sleeping I dont run the air conditioner and the ambient temps are probably around the low 70's with the ceiling fan running. I worry about wintertime because that's when the temps really drop but I can always use a heater to heat up my room somewhat. Right now I'm just using a dome fixture with a ceramic emitter on the hot side that's connected to a dimmer so I can control the output