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Re: Keeping snakes without a hotspot
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If snakes truly do attempt to change their body temperature for some purpose, say deliberately adjusting their metabolism (as some varanids have been found to do), then there is no ideal body temperature and failing to provide a gradient is suboptimal.
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And this right here is the million dollar question. On the basis we simply don't know I'd rather err on the side they vary their body temperature (and bear in mind we may be looking at only a fraction of a degree maybe more) I'll give mine the choice.
*If* there were robust research to show all this moving around from warm to for was to maintain a set temperature I may reconsider. The difficulty then would be does every snake have the same requirement and that I doubt very much - even across species from a similar location.
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0.1 B imperator, 1.0 M spilota harrisoni, 1.0 C hortulanus, 2.1 P reticulatus (Madu locality), 1.1 S amethystine, 1.1 L olivaceous, 1.0 C angulifer, 1.0 Z persicus, 0.1 P regius, 0.1 N natrix, 0.1 E climacophora, 1.0 P obsoletus, 0.1 L geluta nigrtia, 1.0 P catenifer sayi, 1.0 T lepidus
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