Whether your snake likes to bask.
Corn snake heat mat off at night.
Whether you should use a heat mat or a heat lamp will depend on.
The right temperature for your corn snake at night is around 20 25.
How you heat the cage is not nearly as important as achieving the proper temperatures.
You can opt to put a bulb into the viv but this is for your benefit so you can see the snake.
Basking snakes such as corn snakes prefer heat lamps.
I personally think heat mats can be a waste of time as the give off very little heat.
I have a baby corn snake do you turn the heat mat off at night.
A heat mat can t cause issues for your animals unless you have it set up incorrectly without a stat.
Heat mats produce warmth without light and are only good for heating the bottom of an enclosure not the air.
The kind of enclosure.
While she was still in her exo terra plastic box as a young corn snake i used the following setup.
I hope this helps you.
Corn snakes need a light pattern that mimics normal daytime so leaving the heat mat on is the best option for heating your corn snake vivarium at night.
With using both you need a thermometer with a probe so u can test the heat of the substrate the combination of both or the under the tank heater can over heat that side of the tanks substrate and can cause your snake to burn.
Heat mats are the still the most widely used method of maintaining correct temperatures for corn snakes although i believe that they are an inferior heat source compared to heat lamps.
The vivarium setup for my young corn snake.
You can achieve this by turning the basking lamp off and leaving the heat mat on.
It will keep your snake warm without.
At night the heat lamp can be turned off while the heat mat remains on to prevent the cage getting too cold.
If you use your lamp make sure you have a day and night bulb for it.
There are other ways to go about it these are just the most common strategies.
Also we havent feed him yet as we was adviced not to as we only got him tuesday so we are waiting till next tuesday he seems to hide at lot but we are putting down that down to him just settling in i have got 2 hides for him 1 in the hot side 1 in the cold side any information.
Tips for corn snake heating.
You won t need a heat mat if you re using a bulb to heat the viv day and night.
They also emit light brightening up your snake s enclosure.
A heat lamp to create a suitable basking spot and a heat mat to produce a gentle background temperature.
I used a lucky reptile mat on the underside of the box for her hot basking area.
They hang above the vivarium and radiate heat downwards.
Pythons and boas prefer heating pads.
Snakes need day and night.
Snakes don t need light during the night.
Generally speaking the best corn snake heating is likely to consist of two parts.
But for a heat mat any mat stat will be sufficient.
