The numbers
Thermal gradient
A real gradient, 31°C warm against 27°C cool, so the animal chooses. The sheet states no separate night figure.
Why
Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.
The sheet stateswarm 31 °C / cool 27 °C
Humidity
The sheet statesaround 60%
UVB
The sheet statesYou do not need to provide a Borneo Short Tailed Python with any special kind of lighting such as UVB
Identity
Enclosure and conditions
Enclosure
Drawn from the stated numbers. Only what the sheet states is drawn inside.
Why
The rectangle carries the exact width-to-height ratio of the figures above it, and the ruler under it places that width on the 0–250 cm scale every sheet here shares, so two species still compare at a glance. Nothing is added that the sheet does not name: a lamp drawn on a sheet that never mentions one would be invented equipment. What the sheet leaves out is listed rather than left blank, because an empty tank reads as « none needed ».
The sheet states4 ft x 2 ft x 2 ft (env. 120 x 60 x 60 cm)
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.
Diet
Feeding rhythm
Twenty-eight days, one row. Each band is a meal window. The sheet gives several ages on one line; this is the adult figure.
Why
The windows widen as they go because the interval is a range: four meals after a 10–14 day cycle land anywhere between day 40 and day 56.
The sheet statesHatchlings are big enough to accept rat pups for their first feed | juvenile: an appropriately sized frozen thawed rat every 7 days | adults: one meal every 14 days
Common questions
How is this different from a blood python?
Same short heavy build but generally a bit smaller and, in our experience, a little calmer. A good choice if you like the shape but want less snake.
Does it need high humidity?
It comes from a damp forest floor, so it wants a humid enclosure. Poor sheds and stuck eye caps are the usual sign that it is too dry.
Is it a good snake to handle?
Most are steady and slow-moving once settled. Support the body properly because they are heavy for their length.
What is the monthly cost?
Food is modest, roughly a few hundred baht a month for an adult rat every couple of weeks, plus electricity for the heating.
What it needs
Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation.
Sources
Others in this group
What this sheet states
This sheet states 5 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: 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.