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are they really seeking their own comfort zone

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blue roses

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I am now the proud mom of a 4 mos old ball python, his morph is called spinner blast and he is a really pretty boy. When i got him i followed the same procedures that i did with my corn snake except the temps are higher then Gracie. I notice that as with the corn he has a tendency to stay either on the mid range temp range or on the cool side. My corn does the same thing she likes the cooler corner. Are they really only seeking their own comfort zone or are my temps too high
corn temps 85 warm to 75 cool and nugget the ball has temps of 92 warm to 82 cool with a 5 degree night drop.

is this ok for them since if i move them to the warm side they both go back to where they want to be. Do i just have odd snakes. Ambient temps corn 75 ball 85.
 
If you trust your thermometers, I'd say your snakes are just getting where they are comfortable. One of the downsides to this hobby (I guess it applies to everything) is that good equipment is expensive. I sold some ZooMed IRL thermometers in my shop for a while, but it turned out they were pretty inconsistent. If you aren't 100% on your thermometer, a regular mercury aquarium thermometer will be accurate (albeit slow to reach temp) to test against it, and they retail for under five bucks.

In my own collection, it seems to be the same individuals that really sit on the hot spot or spend all their time on the cool side. As long as you are sure your readings are accurate, the snakes are just fine. If you do notice their preference is so strong that they completely avoid half of the cage, my inclination would be to drop temps a bit and see what they do.
 
I am using a pretty good infer red thermometer, and one of my thermostats is a new herpstat, the temp gun reads the exact temp that the digital read out shows on the herpstat, so i am confident that my equiptment is accurate. i just thought that it was unusual for two differant snakes to show the same preferances.
 
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