Caught a Garter snake last week

[infernalis]

Nope. Two different scenarios. I keep my snakes in an non-air-conditioned room where they don't need any additional heat. If I kept them in the main part of the house, they would. It would only be a contradiction if I said the opposite things under the same conditions. You've got to start paying better attention to context.

I caught the error in a proof read after I posted, but still, my experiment proved with absolute certainty that a 100 watt bulb for a 10 gallon tank was too high.

BTW. the original poster never said anything about air conditioning in his first post..

so why not be gentlemen and we both put our weapons away and go back to enjoying the forum.