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Keeping corns cool in summer???

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joann42

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Okay I want to put a couple of my corns in our back room. But Im concerned as it gets pretty warm back there, upper end of 80 degrees sometimes. So how hot can a cornsnake handle it(ambient temps)?
Any ideas for keeping a cooler area in the tanks, they are 40 gallon breeders.
Also if the temps are mid 80's would they still need a basking spot to digest food?
Thanks in advance.
 
Corns do not need to bask, they need belly heat to digest, not light from above. A UTH with thermostat is what you need, set it to 87° and the cool end will take care of itself.

80+ is fine for an ambient temp as long as they are not in direct sunlight. We do not turn the AC on during the day here in Phoenix if we aren't home, so I freeze bottles of water, put them in old long socks, twist the sock a couple of times right above the water bottle and pull the rest of the sock over the bottle again. Then I bury it at the bottom of the cool end, and it makes a decent cooling unit. I have found my corns all over the place with this setup, so if they aren't happy with it they stay at the warm end, but many times they are just sitting on top of the substrate over the bottle.
 
We are in the south and during peak summer months our house stays at 80-82 degrees. I know this is not ideal (cool side) temperature for corns according to all the care sheets and advice but no way corns in hot climates are getting 70-75 degrees at any time of day during hot summer months. Not even if they burrow or find shaded spots or whatever. It just doesn't get that cool even at night.
Just my opinion!
 
Candy makes a point I have many times. On a 100 degree day in corn snake country, it would be interesting to see what the coolest spot under a log, etc. you can find. Bet it's nowhere near 75.

At the temps of your reptile room in a Kansas summer, your thermostat hardly will even kick on, but I'd still run supplemental heat. If there's a cool evening, it could mean the difference in a regurge or not.
 
I have the opposite problem - it's too warm in the winter here because I have little-to-no control over the heat in my apartment. Even the cool side rarely got below 80. Princess has not shown any objection to this, and in fact still spends plenty of time on the warm side regardless.

My conclusion: It's not optimal, but it shouldn't hurt the snake.
 
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