A planning category
A corn snake still needs a measured thermal gradient. Indian stick insects have a different lifestyle and diet. Neither can be selected solely because a room is described as temperate.
Sources: RSPCA — corn snake care · Amateur Entomologists’ Society — stick insects
Seasonality
Do not trigger dormancy, brumation or egg overwintering simply by turning equipment off. The species, life stage and health history determine whether seasonal changes are appropriate.
Sources & limitations
Source dates, product evidence and individual-animal limitations still apply.



