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corn snake book, different info?

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sa_grubb

Reptile Reaper
Hey all. I went into a pet store yesterday and looked at 2 different corn snake books. they were pretty different as far as lighting heating. One book says to keep the warm end from 88-95. The other book says keep the warm end 78-85. Whats the deal? Also one book has a lighting guide and on corn snakes it says a heat glo bulb for night and the other book says night glo which is the blue moonlight bulb. Why are the books different and which information should i go by?
 
Neither,lol You do not need a bulb period and the warm end should be 80-85. Anything over 90 degrees is dangerous and those bulbs dry the cage out and can cause burns. Sucks any idiot can write a book...but any idiot CAN write a book it doesn't make it accurate.
 
Danielle is right about heat lamps/bulbs - and about idiots writing books! Wow!

85 seems to be the accepted optimum temperature for the warm side of a cornsnake's vivarium, give or take a couple of degrees. This feels barely warm to you as your normal body temp is a wee bit higher :)

Would also highly recommend Kathy Love's book - it will tell you everything you need to know, and more to the point it will be correct! There's always the forum for those other need-an-answer-now questions though :)
 
There are as many ideas on husbandry as there are people who keep Corns. I doubt you'd find two people on this board keeping Corns in exactly the same way. Sometimes there seems to be a majority view, although even these can change over time as knowledge of husbandry improves.

Having said that, 90 degrees does seem to be currently accepted as the absolute maximum end of a Corn's safe temperature gradient. I aim for 85 degrees at floor level of the warm end, which gives some wiggle room for safety.

I'd suspect that the books you're reading are either quite old (as in written five years ago or more) and/or the authors are generalist reptile keepers rather than Corn specialists.

I'd recommend a Corn book by acknowledged experts in the field. I use Kathy's book as my bible, and Don Soderberg's is also highly recommended. These are both sources that you can trust implicitly. Just whatever you do, don't go comparing them - I'm sure they won't be exactly the same in all respects either!
 
bitsy said:
I'd recommend a Corn book by acknowledged experts in the field. I use Kathy's book as my bible, and Don Soderberg's is also highly recommended. These are both sources that you can trust implicitly. Just whatever you do, don't go comparing them - I'm sure they won't be exactly the same in all respects either!
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As a newbie who loves to read, I actually did the comparison & they are mighty close!
 
Ok thank you guys. I will try to get dons book and he is who I got my snake from. Didn't know he had one.
 
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