Corn snake enclosure setup and heating

[BillyBlanco]

Lucky you, snakes just invade your place? I used to find tiny night lizards in my former (So. Calif.) house, but no snakes. Darn!

BPs are much harder to keep, & even with everything perfect, they still often fast & drive keepers crazy. I've had BPs in the past, I much prefer other snakes, mostly
colubrids now- they do well with my typical ambient house temperature of 70* in winter (all have UTH heat & some have added over-head warmth as needed).

I live out in the country in the middle of VA so I'm surrounded by snakes and pretty much they usually find their way into our basement and chill out. There was a black snake down there not to long ago but I left him alone. My first snake was a baby corn snake that happen to be out on our front step trying to get in the house and this was during the fall season so I took her or him in and I had that snake for maybe 3 or 4 years and for being a wild snake it would let me reach in and pick it up after awhile. It eventually got free because my mom found an exo terra cage at Goodwill for like 10$ but after handling one day I forgot to close the front doors and he got away. I pretty much did no heat for him and I had no issues. Would always eat when i had food even coming up to the glass waiting for it and then would look at me wanting more. That's pretty much why i got another one because they're so easy to manage and handle but the ball python i got was way more then what i thought it would be