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I live in Las Vegas and I am already feeling the heat. I was wondering if I should be worried about my corn. I recently turned off the heat pad and both sides of the vivarium are around 84 degrees fahrenheit. I keep him in the coolest area of my house but In vegas 84 degrees might just be the coolest area besides my fridge that is ^_^

84 is ok. You may want to consider adding a large water bowl with cool water. Someplace to go and cool off. A hide box with damp moss that you can mist on a daily basis. There's also the option of a small portable air conditioner that you can move into your snake room on the warmest days.

>>I live in Las Vegas and I am already feeling the heat. I was wondering if I should be worried about my corn. I recently turned off the heat pad and both sides of the vivarium are around 84 degrees fahrenheit. I keep him in the coolest area of my house but In vegas 84 degrees might just be the coolest area besides my fridge that is ^_^

wow
how can you live in Vegas without air conditioning?
If it is already 84 degrees in your house in April, what will it be in August?
If it is not 84 degrees in your house then why is it 84 in the snake enclosure?
Lights? Turn off the lights in the enclosure along with the heat pad.
Just curious.
I just can't see how you could live somewhere that gets that warm without AC. Even if the temps do drop dramaticaly over night.
You might need to get a fan and place near the enclosure.
My reptile room can get a little warmer then the rest of the house so I keep the ceiling fan going and a good circulating fan runs 24/7.
I keep my AC set at 72. Sometimes even that seems too warm.....lol
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of reptiles getting overheated in a home/house/room unless a heater and or sunlight coming in and or no ventilation at all. My old farm house gets VERY hot in the summer with a certain sun positioning. Fans will move air around and even if reptiles are not cooled as most mammals are by cool drafts cooling down heat by moisture or taking heat/sweat away from body, they still work. Where does everyone here think that top surface reptile go in the heat of summer ? Sure they estivate but in our state of Kansas upon reaching the high 90ties and 100 degrees, they are just inches if that much under ground under these rocks out here. AND they are in a somewhat and sometimes barely moist soil. Field collecting in west Texas has had me come up with several species of lizards and snakes just sitting under foliage and cacti at OVER 100 degrees in the daytime. The same thing true of my hunting in the southeast like Florida.
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I may be old , cantankerous, crabby, and cynical, but......

A fan? Herps do create a little heat of their own, but fans work on humans like a chill factor, it pulls heat off us. I don’t think a fan will help a lot?

a lot of work, and just an idea at the spur of the moment, stick a rock, or better a ceramic tile in the fridge, wrap in a HEAVY towel, the snake can not get thru and sit it in the cage each day. Will slowly dissipate the cold in the tank.

We've done the reverse with power outages with hot water in a bottle , 1 per tank.

i've read somewhere a LONG LONG time ago to put a bottle of water in there. b/c its still cool to the touch. even putting one from the fridge with a hand towel wrapped around it. and as it cools down just a normal water bottle at room temp.
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