Lamps will dehydrate kingsnakes! Stay with bottom heat and get some way for the hot spot to get warmer!

What temp are we talking on one end? Have you trieed with a temp gun to get the hotspot temperature.

I keep all my colubrids in a cold room year round. By giving them choices (from hot to cold) they use all those temps when they want and need to.

Even in the summer I turn on all the air conditioning units in the snake room and let it get cold in there.

But don't use a heat lamp! It is a terrible to have a light or ceramic heating element in a 10 gallon aquarium. I think those reptile bulbs for snakes should be banned. Dries out the air and that is where snakes get hydrated. Not from drinking!
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• Cali king basking/night lamp? - pmqv, Sat Feb 15 08:28:04 2014
• RE: Cali king basking/night lamp? - Bluerosy, Sat Feb 15 09:09:35 2014
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• RE: Cali king basking/night lamp? - pmqv, Sat Feb 15 09:28:53 2014
• RE: Cali king basking/night lamp? - Bluerosy, Sat Feb 15 18:12:41 2014
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• RE: Cali king basking/night lamp? - FR, Sun Feb 16 09:24:00 2014
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• RE: who makes the choices - FR, Mon Feb 17 10:08:31 2014
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• RE: who makes the choices - FR, Mon Feb 17 10:48:44 2014
• RE: who makes the choices - Bluerosy, Mon Feb 17 11:04:05 2014
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• RE: who makes the choices - Bluerosy, Tue Feb 18 14:06:34 2014
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• RE: who makes the choices - thomas davis, Sat Feb 22 21:40:56 2014
• RE: part II - FR, Sun Feb 16 13:06:22 2014
• RE: part II - Bluerosy, Sun Feb 16 15:20:08 2014
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• RE: part II - Bluerosy, Thu Feb 20 15:38:25 2014
• RE: Cali king basking/night lamp? - Bluerosy, Sun Feb 16 10:55:15 2014
• RE: Cali king basking/night lamp? - tbrophy, Sat Feb 15 15:54:06 2014
• RE: Cali king basking/night lamp? - markg, Mon Feb 17 20:29:59 2014