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Temps for Ball Pythons vary. But I'm curious, what is the warmest ambient (not hot spot) you have successfully used?

I've heard of people successfully keeping BPs in a garage in FL. If mine ever get that warm, they stop feeding. But I also had one that preferred temps no higher than 80. 75-80 and she ate like a pig, 81 she stopped feeding.
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Jay A. Martin
Jay Martin Reptiles

Jay- I have recently moved all of my animals into a newly renovated outbuilding on my property. I've been meaning to come on here and talk about issues with that, but have just been too busy. I'm in the mountains of Va, and the temps here seldom exceed 90. I went ahead and bought a window AC unit for when it does, but I'm not planning on installing it this late in the summer. The past week or so, the temps have been toping out right around 90, give or take a degree or two. Inside the outbuilding, with windows open and a box fan blowing, the temps have been in the high 80s during the afternoon and evening. When they were inside, the ambient temp was probably right around 78-80 in the day time.

I have noticed that I'm seeing more snakes on the cool end, in waterbowls, etc. I'm glad to see that the warm snap is coming to an end. I have fed babies since the move, and they all have eaten normally. I'm feeding adults for the first time since the move on Weds, so I'm interested to see how that goes.

I live in FL as well and I also keep my snakes in the garage. I have my air cond set to 85 deg. So during the hot times in the summer the average temp by day is 85/86 deg and at night 79/80 deg. The feeding response during this time is uncontrollable, I can't stop these guys from wanting more food. I cycle my collection on the florida weather.

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Ghetto Reptiles
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Jason...

Same here im in orlando and i have all mine in a windowless roomwith a screen door with no ac. it reaches a good 92 during the day and all mine eat perfectly well, every once in a while i will see them in there bowl but not often. they eat fine and i have no problems.Night temps are about76-80 give or take.
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Jeff Kearney Orlando Florida (407) 766 6066

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For most of the summer my family had the AC on to drop the temp inside only to 85 - so that was the ambient temp in the house/snake tubs. Some days it would rise to about 90 (especially during that last heat wave!). I didn't have any sort of heating on for most of the summer (daytime) because I was never sure when the day would get hot enough to spike temps inside over 90...I figured at least 85 would be fine for them.
My two females went off feed for breeding season when night temps in my room finally started to drop to about 75 again (about 3 weeks ago), but my males and babies have continued to eat like pigs.

So, long story short, 85 is the highest ambient temp on average that I have had, BUT mine continued to eat with occasional spikes up to 90.

I had to laugh this summer when I realized I was trying to think of ways to cool down one side of my tubs, rather than most people trying to think of ways to heat them up.

~jenny
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From my experience, as long as they are acclimated to the temperatures they usually don't have any problems. If you were to put them in the garage early spring and let the temps gradually raise through the summer, they should continue to feed without any interruption. However, if you stick them out in the garage in late August, I would expect you to have all sorts of problems. The garage works really well for animals with URI's or any type of secondary infection. I'am glad my garage herp keeping days are over though, seriously.