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Hello,
I'm a first time snake owner. I have a marbled children's python, I've had him a week. He's about 5 months old.
He's feeding well, pooped twice in the last week, his water bowl is usually ready to be filled again after a couple days. So all is well with his habits I think.
I'm just worried about the ambient temp of the room/tank he's in. It's never usually above 26°c on the warm side. He's in a 30x30x30 tank with a mesh lid. I've covered roughly half of the lid to trap a bit more heat, but it hasn't helped a whole bunch. I'm using a heat mat which sits around 30°c and only covers half the bottom of the tank, the tank is too small for a heat bulb currently.
I feel like the obvious thing to do would be use a heater in the room, but honestly I'd hoped there was perhaps other methods I could try to fix his ambient temps. I thought I'd add that humidity is almost always perfect too. Thanks!
 
Use a slightly higher wattage heat mat or cord? Try to get the heat mat area to 32-34c.

I've only ever offered belly heat to my Pythons and never had any problems.

The ambient temperatures are fine.
Thanks for the reply!
With the mat, I'm using as high as I can in accordance with the size, it's exactly half the size of the tank 😅
So, for example, if my thermostat is reading 38 but the tank is at 36, it's okay? I was just worried about the glass getting too hot? (There's a good layer of aspen down though).
 


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