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Colubridae

Eastern Rat Snake

Pantherophis alleghaniensis

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warm end29 °C
cool end24–26 °C
Humidity40–50 %

The numbers

Thermal gradient

152025303540 °C
24–26°Cool side
29°Warm side

A real gradient, 29°C warm against 24–26°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 29 °C / cool 24-26 °C

Humidity

40–50%Target RH

The sheet states40-50 % (Reptiles' Cove, page yellow rat snake)

Enclosure and conditions

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

How is it different from the western rat snake?

Mostly range and pattern. Care, size and temperament are essentially the same, and both are hardy climbers.

Does it need a tall enclosure?

Yes, give it height and strong branches. A rat snake with nothing to climb is a bored rat snake.

Will it try to escape?

Absolutely, they are strong and persistent. A locking lid is not optional with this species.

How often does it eat?

An adult takes an appropriately sized rodent about once a week to ten days. Cost is low, only a couple of hundred baht a month.

What it needs

A heat sourcebecause temp — warm 29 °C / cool 24-26 °C
A thermostat to regulate itbecause temp — warm 29 °C / cool 24-26 °C
A thermometerbecause temp — warm 29 °C / cool 24-26 °C
A hygrometerbecause humidity — 40-50 % (Reptiles' Cove, page yellow rat snake)
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.

Others in this group

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What this sheet states

38%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 2 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, its place on the globe, the diet section, the sheet citing where it comes from. 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.