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in the room i have my corns in the temps can get as low as 60 drgrees, but never lower then that. is this too cool for them? also i placed a heating pad under one side of the tank for tonight in case 60 is to low for over night. the temps with the pad there are about 75 degrees inside the tanks is this acceptable or is the heating pad over kill with the low temp of 60.

The temps should be low 70's on the cool side and mid 80's on the hot side.
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1.0 2001 Hypo snow cornsnake
0.1 2002 Pastel Ghost cornsnake
1.1 2002 Bloodred cornsnakes
0.1 1998 Het Hypo, Het Caramel cornsnake
1.0 2000 Hypo Het Caramel cornsnake

While I keep my corns cooler than most people do in the winter (and they do great!)...60 may well be pushing your luck.
Your post sounds like you may have just gotten your snakes (or you yourself just moved to a new setting). Also, you sound like you have more than one. Are they in the same tank? Does the heat pad bring the AIR temps to 75, or just the floor temps at that one spot. Does the cool (COLD!) side get down to 60, or is it more like 65 ?
I suspect that you can get away with bending some of the "rules", but that may mean paying more attention to some of the others. For example...If your snakes are kept cooler than ideal temps, you probably need to extend the "no handling after feeding" rule from 1-2 days out to 3-4 days. Cooler temps = slower digestion, and you could wind up with a regurge either way. Multiple snakes in a tank? Some people get away with it just fine...but if your temps are on the cool side, now we are talking multiple stresses, and MORE competition for the warm spots. And so on. Give us some more info, and get a really good handle on what your temps really are throughout the tank.
Good luck. Duffy

currently i keep chameleons, 9 total. i recently just finshed constructing a room in the garage to move my chameleons into because the combination of all the cages for the chameleons, the feeder bins(crickets,lobster and hissing roaches, and silkworms) and the fact that we are expecting a baby in the next few months we are(or i should say i am)running out of space...and my wife said my hobby is taking over the house, lol. he room has an over head heater that is regulated buy an aqualogic thermastat. it seems to work very well. i have another aqualogic thermastat that i will be using for an air conditioner, i just havent gotten one yetand no need for it yet either.

the 2 corn snakes that i just got are about 5 months old. the temps under the lamp are range from about 85-93, depending whee i point the temp gun(laser temp gun). as i take temps going to the other side of the tank the temps range from 85 down to 74. these temps were taken this afternoon about 2pm. i will take the temps again later tonight also to see what changes i have.

i have wanted to get a couple snakes for a little more then a year now but my wife has always stopped me, thats how i got into the chamleons, i thought i could soften her up with the chameleons. but it just hasn't happened. so i just decided what the hell i wan them i have a room outside the house to keep them i am going to get them. so here i am. i had actually wanted 2 chiracuahau mountian kings but decided i'd learn with these and pick of the ones that i wanted in the spring when there sems to be more available(better selection)

anyway so here is the male

and the female

Sounds like they have plenty of chance to warm up when they need to, and if Gargoyle says his temps drop down to 60 at night without any ill effects, I would say you are fine. Nice lookin'
new snakes. Enjoy them. Duffy

As long as you have a heating pad under one side your fine.Even in the summer i run my air at night set at 60.Ive never had a problem with it.I have a adult male amel that never uses the heating pad.I did have to slow down his feed cycle to once every 3-4 weeks....Paul