Can snakes absorb heat from the air?

Question

I thought they absorbed off objects, mine is staying in the far corner from the hotspot I made (under tank heater with the lamp a couple inches away).

Is it too hot?

Answer 1

snakes are extothermic(cold blooded), and they absorb heat from there surrounddings, including air

Hope this helps

Answer 2

Yes, they get most of their heat from the ambiant air temp.  It may indeed be too hot, I would just leave on the lamp.  There's no need for both especially in the summer, and of the two...the lamp is the better heat source.  If you use only hot pads or (god forbid) hotrocks, you aren't heating the air and they (esp. boids) are likely to get resperatory infections from the cool air.  If your snake is a colubrid, depending on where you live and if you have AC, you may not need additional heat at all during the summer.  Most north american colubrids are very happy with 72 degrees plus.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Yes... mine sits under her heat lamp & absorbs the heat thru the air. If you pick her up after sitting there, you can feel that she is warm. She hates sitting over her heating pad. Just make sure you have some cooler spots in the tank too, your snake will sit where he/she is most comfortable.

Answer 5

Probably too hot.  It's important to measure the basking temps (over the heating pad and under the lamp) with a digital probe thermometer.  Stickon and dial thermometers are not accurate for this.  It should be about 85F.  Make sure the opposite end of the tank is cooler so he has a choice.  Too hot or too cold and there will be health problems.

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Answer 6

yes that is to hot pick one best chose is to have the heat lamp