I have one of those for my snake...to check the cage temps. Cool...that your using it for bonsai purposes. Did you buy it for that...or just had it and had a light bulb moment?
Sorry for a thread hijacking....but what type of snake do you have....and how old and big????
I've always been an animal lover, snakes are no exception, in fact I go out of my way to wrangle wild snakes...
It's so much fun wrangling wild snakes...usually once they feel my body heat, they calm down and get docile...
One time I had a 6 foot black snake in the front yard for 3 days straight ....
He was sunning in my blacklace elderberry tree, and I'd come home from work and see him in the tree, gently remove him from the tree and play with him a bit in the grass...
Neighbors looked at me like I was crazy...and they assumed it was my pet, until they asked...
I've caught many, many wild snakes and got a close look, and have never been bitten...
The only time I got bitten by a snake, I was 10 years old and at a new friends house for the first time... His parents had a very large red tailed boa living in the basement, 15 feet to be exact....I reached towards its head too quickly, at a time when it was hungry enough to strike...
And it took my whole hand into its mouth... Gave me small wounds around my wrist...but no worries....even at that young age, I understood what happened...
Steve Irwin was a major influence on me as a child...
I loved that guy....