Hi Jason,

Without going into too much detail, tropical species can come from very different climatic zones even within a small area. "Tropical" does not always mean hot. For instance, in Venezuela you will find different types of vipers thriving in higher elevation cloud forests, where temperatures are a cool 55-83f range. Go just 100 miles to the east, you begin to see much hotter environments where these snakes could not survive.

I have seen Tom Crutchfield's Diamond python set-up. I have also been to the part of Australia twice where Diamond's occur naturally and have observed the wild snakes. My impressions at the time I visited Tom(before he had bred the pythons!) was that he was very close, if not identical to the pythons natural temperature range and husbandry preference. I am not surprised by his great results.

Truly,

Paul Bodnar
Crocodile Wildlife Conservationist

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