Most breeders use racks in insulated buildings, and what that means is most of those snakes are housed in conditions with a small range of temps available. Not always, but mostly. So it works. May not be optimum, but it isn't fatal either. Just a nice comfy middle. Comfy for you too. As long as the snake is not asked to deal with extreme situations, it may not have to use extreme temps. A snake that is fed well doesn't need cool temps to conserve. A snake that does not have to deal with parasites may not need to seek higher temps. Just throwing out some possibilities.



What you can do if desired to change things up is to use a temperature controller with a nightime drop feature. This gets the snakes some variance at least at night, assuming the room temp lowers at night. Great for zonata IMO. Or get a huge cage for each snake pair and have a really warm end and a cool end.



Not likely in the US. We like lots of snakes in the smallest possible footprint.., one that we can stow away easily. And we want those snakes to breed perfectly and eat every time and never bite or squirm and "get better looking with every shed" and be the ideal that we dream up in our minds. Actually not bad specifications for a pet snake. I would want one of those too.
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