No, bumping up the temps to around 90 if you suspected an RI is not a problem. Reading your post I thought you kept them there. As far as the temps in Indo right now, looking at the weather link that was on the MVF forum and from Ron, who lives there, he says he never drops the temps for cycling and felt that the upper 60's were far too low for the snakes. I personally keep my snakes at 82.5 and they still spend most of their time on the cool side. I have a few that sit under the warm side panel and seem to stay in that area except at night when they are crawling around. After the thermal scan studies that I read about, they were showing that the snakes body temps were actually much higher under the panel than the thermostat was reading. At 84, the snake was showing around 90. I've found much better activity and more robust feeding responses with the temps lower. I don't know that I will cycle at much lower than where I'm at during the day. Perhaps a few degrees max.
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