Originally Posted by BadNick

I thought that besides them liking some warmth, reptiles also need the right amount of warmth to promote proper digestion. If you don't warm them enough they will not digest properly, they get clogged up and die.

I like snakes but have never had one as a pet. But my favorite encounter with a pet snake was a few years ago I was sitting in my office when I notice something moving out of the corner of my eye; I look along the base of the wall and see a huge snake!!! It turns out that one of the other guys in the office had a pet snake I didn't know about at that time; it was a Burmese Python and was already 14 feet long; a beautiful critter, we played with it and let it crawl around us, hang over your shoulders etc; but a few years later he had to give it to a reptile farm since by that time it got so strong it could overwhelm a normal human male.