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Turning on the room lights after dark?

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Callow Methuselah

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I've searched for similar threads, but can't find anything addressing this questing. I sometimes get off of work late and my corn is in my office. So after it has been dark for several hours, I turn on the room lights (usually just turn on my desk lamp), but I'm wondering if this will affect the temperament of the snake from not getting a full night of darkness.
 
Well, I get home around midnight every night on weekend and go upstairs to my room (where my snake is) and turn on my light. And most of the time i catch him moving around and he doesn't seem to be bothered, he looks at me like "What are you looking at?" -Deer in the headlights thing- but he still acts as gentle as can be and i've had no problems. So from an experience standpoint, i don't see a problem with it :)
 
Interesting question. Over the years, I have had snakes in rooms that corresponded to daylight/dark, rooms that were mostly light (not bright), and rooms that were mostly dark (not always pitch dark).
Presently, my snakes are in my very large bathroom (separate room from the shower/tub part,...that I can easily control temp and humidity), were I have a 25 or 40 watt nightlight on 24/7...just so I don't have to flick the overhead light on and off over the course of the day and night (I am a night owl).
During the day, and post-feeding periods, the corns are mostly in their hides. At night they are usually out, watching me.
I have heard senior members talk about corns becoming accustomed to their tub/viv, to the extent that their whole tub/viv is to them their hide.
I think that having plenty of hiding places to seek and find darkness in their tubs/vivs would be the key thing...for them to have a choice.

Corn snakes in the wild are classified as crepuscular (as opposed to diurnal or nocturnal), meaning most active at dawn and dusk. Hiding out during daylight hours under debris, underground, or similarly concealed.
 
I have a CFL red light in my reptile room. When I need to go into the room at night and be able to see I turn it on. Most reptiles can not see the red spectrum. The light is quit bright, and I can see well with it. I sometimes wonder what my neighbors must think of it though, it looks like something... well to be blunt, out of a prono. :p
 
Turning on room lights occasionally at night shouldn't be a problem, as long as the snakes have hiding places. My snakes are in my office so we occasionally have to go in there at night and turn the lights on. The issue with giving them day/night cycles is that you don't want to leave a heating lamp (or other type of light) on 24/7 - that would really stress them out.
 
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