Regis

STAY AWAY FROM HEAT ROCKS!!!!!!!!

You need to use heat tape, heating pads or heat lamps. That hot rock is realy to small for it. If you are going to use the hot rocks cover it in paper towls or cloths and use a lamp with it as well. Please do not think I am being rude or anything just letting you know I would hate to see another snake get burned.

thanks for telling me and your not rude at all , i plan on getting him a heating pad soon but for now he'll just have to stay with the heating rock , i can get him a bigger heating rock but like you said , it could burn him , but i've been using this heating rock for him for so long and it had never burned him , would'nt that mean that it safe ?

It realy does not mean its safe! I have seen people use hot rocks for years and all of a sudden it burns the animal. Also is that a cedar half log. If so i would move it out as soon as posible and put something else in there for a hide box.

Don't forget, even if the rock is safe, which it isn't, it can short out. Nasty when that happens because the heat becomes uncontrollable until it finally burns out. A snake could get seriiously hurt before that happens.