Most reptiles will benefit in a night time drop in temperature. Especially if the animal is from temperate zone.

If you leave the heating pad on and turn the lamp off you should have no problems. Its always a good idea to give the animals a night cycle. And even if the cage drops to below 70 the snake still has the heating pad so he can warm up a bit if he so desires.

If the snake is in an extremely cold room and you have a tropical species you could consider a ceramic "bulb" which produces heat but no light. Altough I wouldnt keep it quite as hot as you do during the day. For example if you provide a hot spot of 100 degree during the day a drop to 75-80 at night will do no harm and is most likely a good thing.

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• Night heat lamps question - TheJosephCobra, Wed Oct 4 14:25:57 2006
• RE: Night heat lamps question - ctct, Wed Oct 4 18:41:05 2006
• RE: Night heat lamps question, depends - mchambers, Fri Oct 6 07:32:43 2006