How to Heat Pueblan Milk Snake Habitats

Video Transcript

"Since snakes are cold blooded animals; you want to keep them warm. For milk snakes, some of them are tropical, some are more temperate. The ones that are temperate zones, you really don't need to keep as warm. But more of these tropical, like the Pueblan, Nelsons milk snakes, you want to keep around seventy-five to eighty-five degrees. You want that to be the ambient temperature inside their enclosure. I keep them in a reptile room where it has a constant eighty to eighty-five degrees. If you don't have a reptile room, that stays that constant temperature, I recommend using heat tape, or under the tank heaters that keep a constant warm spot for the snake. If the snake gets to cool, it can go over to the warm spot, warm its body up, then go over to the cool side once it gets to warm. I don't use basking lights for milk snakes, simply because they are nocturnal. Meaning that they sleep during the day and they do most of their activity at night. So if you put a basking light in there, the snake probably wouldn't utilize it. Also basking lights can bring the temperatures up to much. You don't want to create to warm of a temperature in there for your snake. Also, you want make sure its warm, especially after your snake has eaten. The snake needs the warmth to move its body, to have its internal organs work correctly, to process that meal."