I don't know about the water bowl stuff. Water pulls heat from the body faster than air. You would be cold in a 65 degree swimming pool but not a 65 degree room.



A snakes body temp is always slightly above the ambient temp. They may be ectotherms but they still have a metabolism and their bodily functions do create some heat. So being in water will cool them better than air of the same temp.



Last summer I lived in an attic apartment and had real problems keeping the place cool enough on really hot days. I would come home and find everyone in the waterbowls. The bowls were small though (baby snakes) so I know that they are the same temp as everything else.



The soaking while hibernating thing is really interesting. None of my snakes have ever done that. Did they do it when it got too cold? Also, I thought that infrared guns can't measure water temps acurately...could be wrong about that.

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