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warm end30 °C

cool end24–25 °C

Humidity80–90 %

The numbers

Thermal gradient

152025303540 °C

24–25°Cool side

30°Warm side

20°Night

Day: a real gradient, 30°C warm against 24–25°C cool, so the animal chooses. Night: 20°C.

Why

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

The sheet stateswarm 30 °C / cool 24-25 °C / night 20 °C

Humidity

80–90%Target RH

The sheet statesThe humidity rises to 80-90% overnight, but decreases to around 60% during the day.

Diet

Even adult (6-8 ft) Spilotes pullatus are never fed anything larger than rat pups or adult mice.

Identity

Origin

S Mexico (Chiapas, Oaxaca, Tamaulipas, Quéretaro, Campeche, Yucatan, Quintana Roo etc.), Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua

Enclosure and conditions

Temperature

warm 30 °C / cool 24–25 °C / night 20 °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.

Nearest city

What it needs

A heat sourcebecause temp — warm 30 °C / cool 24-25 °C / night 20 °C

A thermostat to regulate itbecause temp — warm 30 °C / cool 24-25 °C / night 20 °C

A thermometerbecause temp — warm 30 °C / cool 24-25 °C / night 20 °C

A way to check the night figurebecause temp — warm 30 °C / cool 24-25 °C / night 20 °C

A hygrometerbecause humidity — The humidity rises to 80-90% overnight, but decreases to around 60% during the day.

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

reptiletalk.net — lu le 2026-08-09 Range as recorded in the EPS reference workbook, read 2026-08-09

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What this sheet states

62%

TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 4 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: 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.