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Setup

The numbers

Thermal gradient

152025303540 °C
24–27°Cool side
29–32°Warm side

A real gradient, 29–32°C warm against 24–27°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 29-32 °C / cool 24-27 °C

Humidity

60–80%Target RH

The sheet states60-80 %

UVB

Requiredrequired

The sheet statesUVA/UVB benefits animal

Enclosure
Baby-Young: 36"x18"x18" | Sub Adult: 36"x18"x36" (minimum) | 48"x24"x48" (ideal) | Adult: 72"x48"x72" (6 ft minimum)
Diet
Carnivorous: Whole Prey | Rodents, Quail, Chicks, Bird eggs

Traceable. The figures above appear in the page we cite, which we opened on 10 Aug 2026. That means you can check them, not that we have confirmed they are right. reptichip.com

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.

What it needs

A heat sourcebecause Temperature — warm 29-32 °C / cool 24-27 °C
A thermostat to regulate itbecause Temperature — warm 29-32 °C / cool 24-27 °C
A thermometerbecause Temperature — warm 29-32 °C / cool 24-27 °C
A hygrometerbecause Humidity — 60-80 %
UVB, stated as requiredbecause UVB — UVA/UVB benefits animal
Not stated: The size of the enclosurethis sheet describes the enclosure without a figure: « Baby-Young: 36"x18"x18" | Sub Adult: 36"x18"x36" (minimum) | 48"x24"x48" (ideal) »

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.

The species

National law is not global, and we hold no national wildlife law for any country, Thailand included. Check your own authority before buying or selling.

Questions & sources

Common questions

How big does it get?

2 to 3 metres, very fast and very active. A standard tank is nowhere near enough.

Does it bite?

Yes. It is a nervous snake and a bite from something this size bleeds, though it has no venom.

Does it calm down?

Some do with steady daily handling. Wild-caught adults often stay flighty for life.

What does it eat?

Rodents, frogs and lizards. It has a large appetite and feeds more often than most big colubrids.

Back to the Atlas My keep

https://keepr.pet/husbandry/en/ptyas-mucosa

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What this sheet states

85%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 6 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: day/night engine and awake count on the globe. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.

UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 420 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.