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Colubridae

Rhinoceros Ratsnake

Gonyosoma boulengeri

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Photograph: Paul Morris · CC BY-SA

Photographed by an observer on iNaturalist and published under a Creative Commons licence; the photographer and the licence are named under the image. It is not an animal of ours, and no animal was handled by us to produce it.

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Day

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warm end30–34 °C
cool end28 °C

The numbers

Thermal gradient

152025303540 °C
28°Cool side
30–34°Warm side
24°Night

Day: a real gradient, 30–34°C warm against 28°C cool, so the animal chooses. Night: 24°C.

Why

Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.

The sheet stateswarm 30-34 °C / cool 28 °C / night 24 °C

Identity

Origin

Enclosure and conditions

Temperature
warm 30–34 °C / cool 28 °C / night 24 °C

What your climate adds

This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.

Common questions

Is it hard to keep?

Moderately. It comes from cool humid mountain forest, so a hot dry room is its main enemy here.

Does it bite?

Calmer than most green tree snakes, but it will bite if grabbed. Handle lightly and rarely.

How big does it get?

Around 1.2 to 1.4 metres and very slender, so a tall enclosure suits it better than a wide one.

What does it eat?

Small rodents, about once a week. Some new arrivals are fussy at first and need quiet and patience.

What it needs

A heat sourcebecause temp — warm 30-34 °C / cool 28 °C / night 24 °C
A thermostat to regulate itbecause temp — warm 30-34 °C / cool 28 °C / night 24 °C
A thermometerbecause temp — warm 30-34 °C / cool 28 °C / night 24 °C
A way to check the night figurebecause temp — warm 30-34 °C / cool 28 °C / night 24 °C
Not stated: The size of the enclosurethis sheet states no size

Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation. What the sheet does not state is listed too, rather than left out: a kit that looks complete is worse than one that names its gap.

Sources

thebhs.org — lu le 2026-08-04reptiletalk.net — lu le 2026-08-04reptilesupply.com — lu le 2026-08-04GBIF distribution (checklist range) — read 2026-08-09

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What this sheet states

46%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 3 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: humidity instrument and audit, enclosure size audit, day/night engine and awake count on the globe, the diet section. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.

UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 421 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.