Wild-types rule

[infernalis]

Originally Posted by sirtalis

nor sure if its any smarter, they certainly have a higher metabolism but if you heat any snake (raise their basking temp over a hundred, which is quite common in the wild) up they'll act similar to a retic or a colubrid

Thank you for pointing that out. Many of the keepers who have "nippy" snakes actually offer proper HOT basking spots. Any exothermic animal will be "tame" (lethargic) when not offered the proper basking temps.

[sirtalis]

Originally Posted by infernalis

Thank you for pointing that out. Many of the keepers who have "nippy" snakes actually offer proper HOT basking spots. Any exothermic animal will be "tame" (lethargic) when not offered the proper basking temps.

Yessir I've noticed that with my leos, originally I used a heat pad and they basked around 85-95 but now I've been keeping them like my monitors, bask them higher than 110-120 raise the humidity a nice bioactive substrate and suddenly you have a whole different animal haha

(Edit) sorry about derailing the thread but @infernalis I just realized that you wrote savannahmonitor.net, a huge thanks from me and all my reptiles

[dave himself]

Originally Posted by sirtalis

Yessir I've noticed that with my leos, originally I used a heat pad and they basked around 85-95 but now I've been keeping them like my monitors, bask them higher than 110-120 raise the humidity a nice bioactive substrate and suddenly you have a whole different animal haha

(Edit) sorry about derailing the thread but @infernalis I just realized that you wrote savannahmonitor.net, a huge thanks from me and all my reptiles

No problem mate work away