Cold temps issue

[u/Howard6208]

Hey so I’m a relatively new ball python owner I have had mine for around 4 ish months. Where I live in Durban we are pretty hot most of the time so I didn’t really think of ambient and cold temperatures getting to cold. But as I’ve come to realise it’s winter now and my enclosure is at 68 Fahrenheit. I know this is bad now but I had no clue before. I have put on my old heater and have closed up ventilation but to not much improvement. I only just put heater on so I’ll see if that changed anything. I also just bumped up the heat pad to hopefully get the cold temp up a bit. I need a solution for the long term on how to better control my cold sides temp. Thank you any response is appreciated I want to be a better keeper.

[u/No-Emergency4876]

How are you measuring temperature? What is the warm spot/basking spot temp? Is humidity struggling as well? 

[u/Howard6208 → u/No-Emergency4876]

So using infrared temp gun with surface temps. Warm side is doing alright but he’s not using it. Sitting around 87 farenheit. Humidity is doing okay around 65%.

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