Your body temp is about 98 degrees. Anything cooler than that will feel cold to you. Just because your snake "Feels Cold" doesn't mean it is cold. You can't go by the way they feel, rather rely on the actual temperatures.
If you provide the correct temps inside the cage , and you know for sure they are the correct temps, then the rest is up to the snake. It will hang out where it's most comfortable.
If the snake "Always stays on the cold side" and never goes to the warm side, maybe you are not reading the temps correctly.
The temps should be taken inside the Hides. So your cold side temp should be measure inside the cold hide and the warm side temp should be measured inside the warm side hide.
I like to use one of those "Point and Shoot Infrared" type thermometers. You simply aim it at the point, pull the trigger and you instantly get the temps.
Just because you have your Thermostat set at 85 doesn't mean it is. And some of those cheap thermostats don't work very well and those cheap stick on thermometers are really useless anyway.
After you verify everything is correct, then the snake will do what it wants. No problems. My snake spends time in both locations.
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