General beginner questions about my first corn snake!

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Hey man, I know absolutely nothing that has not been taught to me by an experienced keeper, or through trial and error by my snakes.

My comment to you was encouraging you to raise your temps. I said the words "implement a heat source" because the temps that you listed are pretty close to ambient temps. What you listed as a hot side I keep as my ambient (and cool side) temps more or less. In the most basic of enclosures only two temperatures matter- your ambient (which is going to be your cool side as well) and your hot spot. The point is to allow your snake to warm himself up past the ambient temps whenever he wants. This is why it is important to either have it constantly available, or to have it available at the very least for a light cycle. (12 hrs). There are reasons other than digestion that your snake will seek heat. In more complex setups you can offer multiple temperature gradients. I believe this increases the activity of most snakes. Any set up where I incorporated different t heat gradients my snakes used most of them throughout the day. Even "lazy" ball pythons would come out mid day to change hides.

Sorry- that was a very long winded way of simply saying that your temps are too low and you should offer more heat.