Raise the temps. When attempting to have snakes continue to feed and grow in the winter, you really need to convince the snake. Air temps are fairly worthless. As it has little to do with mass temps and snakes WORK with mass temps.
Temps like you mentioned, are great but the keeper needs to understand, they are guidelines, not rules. A place to start, not set of rules to not vary from.
As one whos experienced(old) I do not even take temps, I go by the behavior of the animal. In winter, if the animal is not responding, then add heat(if all else is normal). You guys call me crazy because I use temps in excess of recipe. Yet, this is exactly whats its for, times, when its needed. If they don't need it, they simply do not have to use it. So if 80% of the time higher temps are not needed, I could care less. Its the 20% of the time when all the snake has to do is go to higher heat, that it becomes important. This example shows an albino hog under the first board. The top board has a temp of 108f, the next layer, 95F, the third layer, mid eighties. The snake just ate three fuzzies and went to mid level. Mid ninties.
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