I really only said that so the snake itself could not get any hotter than that. As both of us know, if a cage is long enough, you could even have it 200 degrees if you really wanted, as long as the snake could get further away from it, and into it's preferred gradient somewhere in between those extremes. But just as the poster a few threads down found out, if they cannot get away from the hot part as well, they are dead(as he also found out).



Yeah i read that thread and I did not post anything on it. I am not convinced that heat killed the snake. It could have been anything. As you probably know sometimes snakes (even fat healthy ones ) end up dead one day with no reasonable explantion. After reading his story it was assumed that he thought the temps were to high. i have kept snakes with hot spots like his with no problems except they like to eat a lot.



Normally if a snakes encloser is to hot they press themselves sideways against the front side of the cage. That is a good indicater that it is to hot. Snakes have a remakable way to survive hot temps in a cage. Just by keeping an eye out for them not to be pressed up against the front of the cage (away from the hot side) is a good way to tell.
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