Sorry i didn't mean to put this under Randys post.



One more thing. You DON"T want to heat the whole cage. That defeats the purpose of a heat pad and letting the snake choose its temps.



My snakes sit in a cold room during winter and they prefer to sit at 5-60F. When they eat they move over to the hot side to digest. When they are done, they move back to the cold .





If you heat up the whole cage then you will have problems . They need to escape the heat and that's why heat pad is the best solution.





So if using the heat pad...(in a cooler room!!!)and it is not in a room that is above 80F. You don't need a temp gun because the hot area can get very hot . Just feeel the area and you can tell if it is warm. The snake will do the rest. This is what they do in the wild. They heat up for a while in the sun. Move to a cooloer place. Look for humidity ect.



Give the snake as wide a range of temp choices in the cage as possible. That is why a cool room or airconditioned room is good in the summer. If the room gets to hot. Then you need to turn off the heat pad anyway.



Also if you do keep your snake overly warm and they can't escape (get down below 70F) then you need to feed them a lot because the warm temps will make them burns calories like crazy. So feer food every 4 days in the situation.







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It is really hard to help some people without knowing all the facts of the set up. That includes where you are located geographcally? do you keep your snakes in a garage? airconditioned room? if so what room temps?...so many scenarios without all the info we can't always give the right advice unless we can see what EXACTLY you are doing. I only say this becasue of your question on whether to put the heat pad inside the cage...which to me says you have not really thought things through enough. You can spill a water bowl on the electric...so use some common sense and maybe give me a shout in PM so we can email.
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