Nope, no problems. Everyone eats every week, no fasting even during winter, they thermoregulate regularly from the warm side to the cool side, shed normally, and grow very well. I haven't had RI's in any of my original collection, just two snakes that came from two different places(one got stressed in shipping, and the other is a pet store rescue where she was exposed to some very bad bacteria and it's taken over a month to find out what antibiotics she needs to be on).



Some people have good luck keeping them cool. Myself, I don't want to risk anything by reducing their immune system's ability to fight off illness. I feel that 75 for the cool side is way too cool, and obviously Jen is having a problem with it too since her Het Clown has an RI. Now, I'm not saying you should go over 95 unless a snake is sick, but 95 is perfectly safe and I can bet you it gets very hot inside a termite mound during the summer(termites make heat, plus the sun). It's gotta be a sauna in there.



I keep an eye on every one of my snakes. If they start showing me that they don't like the heat, are staying on the cool side constantly, soaking in their bowls, bowl wrapping, etc, then I'll bump it down. But until then, they'll stay at 95/85. If it ain't broke, don't fix it
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-Becky Brown, RVT-

1.0 Lemon Pastel Classic Jungle(NERD)

1.0 Black Pastel

2.13 Normals

1.0 NERD Yellow/Green Hypo

1.1 Spiders(BHB)

1.1 Yellowbellies(BHB)

1.0 100% Het Pied Classic Jungle(Don Kaye)

0.1 50% Poss. Het Pied(Gary Kettring)

0.1 Classic Jungle

1.0 66% Poss Het Ax Genetic Granite(VPI)

18 07 Hatchlings

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