Posted by:
zach_whitman
at Wed Feb 27 18:59:20 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by zach_whitman ]
Except two things.
A water bowl is not a pond. Even though water changes temps slower than air, a small bowl in a cage will reach the air temperature in less than an hour (depending on the size of the bowl and how fast temps change)
The second thing is that snakes are always slightly above the temperature of their surroundings. Their cells and muscles and metabolic reactions that keep them alive do produce minimal amounts of heat. So if it is 70 degrees ambient temp the snakes core temp is probably more like 73 (for larger/thicker snakes this difference is even greater)
So what I was saying is that a 93 degree snake will cool off faster in 90 degree water than it would in 90 degree air.
[ Hide Replies ]
|
Yes...except - zach_whitman, Wed Feb 27 18:59:20 2008