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Corn snake heat mat or lamp.
I used a lucky reptile mat on the underside of the box for her hot basking area.
That s why ultraviolet heat lamps and top of the range heat mats are perfect for your pet corn snake.
In this video i outline the basics in providing the correct heating and lighting for your corn snake.
Snakes from tropical countries like ball pythons require higher temperatures than snakes from more temperate climes.
Heat mats produce warmth without light and are only good for heating the bottom of an enclosure not the air.
But for a heat mat any mat stat will be sufficient.
We try to provide this heat over 1 3 of the enclosure while letting the rest of the enclosure cool to 70 o f on the opposite side.
Naturally corn snakes would be experiencing temperatures of around 90 o f in the sun.
Heat mats are the still the most widely used method of maintaining correct temperatures for corn snakes although i believe that they are an inferior heat source compared to heat lamps.
This is controlled by a dimming thermostat to make sure that the temperature is.
An ultraviolet heat lamp is great if you want to view your corn snake at night and not disturb it corn snakes are not.
The vivarium setup for my young corn snake.
A naturally basking species such as a garter snake will do much better with a heat lamp than a heat mat because it encourages natural basking behaviour which a heat mat.
Corn snakes are cold blooded creatures and need all the heat they can get.
If you use a heat lamp you ll need to use a different heat source during the.
Make sure you research what temperature your species of snake needs.
You might have to use a rheostat or thermostat with your corn snake heating device in order to reach the desired temperatures.
It depends on the type of snake and what material you mean by snake tub.
To achieve this we attach a basking lamp to the ceiling of the enclosure on one side.
This was controlled via a microclimate evo lite thermostat.
This allows you to dial down the amount of electricity going to your reptile lamp or heat mat thereby controlling the output and the cage temp.
While she was still in her exo terra plastic box as a young corn snake i used the following setup.
Corn snakes are generally seen late in the evening.