At What Temp Is It Too hot For a Ball Python

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I am looking into purchasing this Male Spider Pastel Butter Banana as well as a female Butter Enchi. But the problem I have is the ambient temp in our house on rare occasions gets up to 95 - 100 f. I know that is defiantly not optimal and we only get two to three days a year that are that hot. Our house does not have AC, we do have a shop and there is AC in there, that stays at 85 f. when we are in there. But when there is no one in there during the weekend it does get up to 95 and possibly up to 100, because we do not run the AC during the weekend.

Is that too too hot or is that tolerable? The average temp here depending in the season is mid 80’s to low 90’s for daytime, and low 80’s to high 70’s for nights.

Do you think this is a doable temp or just way too hot?

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Can you get a small AC unit for that room? That would be too risky in my opinion. The highest ambient I would recommend is 80*.

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I know folks who keep snakes at ambient temps only and don’t use other heating elements, but even in those cases the ambient is generally no more than 84-85. I would definitely be concerned if you were getting above that at any regular interval or for any extended period of time.

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I have to agree. Over 85 is definitely not something you would want to prolong on them. Remember that even though they are an African species much of their time is spent in cool burrows when it’s hot.

Add in the fact that the snake is already carrying a wobble gene… Not a good idea at all. You can definitely make things much worse on that snake from environmental stresses.

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We do have a small closet that is approximately 100cm × 200cm. I could put a AC unit in there are keep the room at 85 F. Do you think that is a ok temp, or do I have to get the temp down to 80 F?

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I would try to keep it on the lower side so 80-83.
If you have it set to 85, that doesn’t leave much room for errors in case for some reason the cooling system breaks.

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Ok, I can try 80 f.

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No more than 83 would be your best bet. If there is a problem and and ac failure, i dont think it matters what temp you have it set to. The room will still heat up fairly fast that you wont be able to correct it soon enough. So a couple degrees reall wont matter.

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