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carmich132

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So today I took out Jellybean, my 1.2 year old corn snake, and aside from him feeling the need to poop all over me, he felt very cold. He never seems to leave his cool-side hide, except right after eating, and even then he only stays in the warm hide for less than 15 hours. I'm not sure why he refuses to go to the warm hide ( I checked and double checked all his temps and they are well within the normal range), but I belive the temperature that he was at can't be healthy. His cage is clean, and I can't seem to think of any reason that he would keep himself as cold as he does. Any input/thoughts would be really helpful. He still eats/poops once a week, and does not show any irregular signs, other than rarely leaving his cool-side hide.
 
Remeber snakes are colder than us. Hense the word cold blooded. But thats for a different reason all together. lets just say that we heat ourself up to about 80ish but they are abit lower so they feel cold
 
You're hands don't measure temperature. They measure a difference in temperature. The snake has a different temperature than your hands - cooler. That's why he feels cool to you.

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carmich132 said:
So today I took out Jellybean, my 1.2 year old corn snake, and aside from him feeling the need to poop all over me, he felt very cold. He never seems to leave his cool-side hide, except right after eating, and even then he only stays in the warm hide for less than 15 hours. I'm not sure why he refuses to go to the warm hide ( I checked and double checked all his temps and they are well within the normal range), but I belive the temperature that he was at can't be healthy. His cage is clean, and I can't seem to think of any reason that he would keep himself as cold as he does. Any input/thoughts would be really helpful. He still eats/poops once a week, and does not show any irregular signs, other than rarely leaving his cool-side hide.
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I'm wondering if he just prefers that particular hide and it happens to be on the cool side. as an experiment you could move that hide to the warm side and move the other hide to the cool side. See if he will then spend most of his time in that same hide on the warm side. If so it may be more a matter of feeling secure than temperature that keeps him in that particular hide.
 
You have yet to state a temperature degree, like it's 82 degrees on the warm side and 71 on the cool side. So... is it possable that the warm side is TOO HOT for him??? But if you do have themometers then fine. Leave well enought alone, snake will do what they like.
 
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