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Originally Posted by jjhill001
I imagine that the anecdotes about water bowls you've mentioned are coming from folks who are keeping their snakes too hot. Happens with colubrids a lot because many of the caresheets out nowadays are old and still call for the 90+ degree hotspots and warm ambient's that just aren't beneficial to the vast majority of North American colubrids.
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In regards to most of the caresheets on hognose snakes, the opposite would be true. Any care sheets suggesting temps without this kind of hotspot would be outdated and written in times where nobody could get their snakes feeding consistently and pooly calficied eggs plagued a lot of breeders. Temps of 80-82 to 90-92 will not cause soaking in western hognose snakes but will alleviate most feeding and reproductive issues. If one doesn't mind encountering these issues, by all means go with the "normal" temp ranges for other north american colubrids of low 70's to low 80's.
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