New setup for first ball python- please let me know if I need to make changes!

[Thursday]

I just picked up my first ball python yesterday. (I'm so excited!) She is six months old and according to the person I bought her from, has been eating well. I wanted to house her in an aquarium for the sake of visibility and aesthetics. I put black paper along three sides of the tank and put some foil over 2/3 of the top to retain humidity. There is an under tank heater to the left and a heat light that I have on a very dim setting (I turned it up for the pics) because it seemed a bit cold -it's up to around 82 degrees ambient now on the warm end. The substrate is aspen bedding.

I made some temporary hides out of small cardboard boxes and will replace them as they get soiled until I find something more permanent. I put extras in because it seemed like a big tank for such a small snake.

Here are the pics:





Questions:

Does the setup generally seem all right?

Do I need to adjust temps?

My snake seems to be only hanging out in the back corner by the plant on the cool end- not in a hide. You can kind of see her in the second picture. Should I be concerned about this/ adjust anything?

Thanks for your help!


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[Gerardo]

Looks ok. Do you have a hot spot? Try getting identical hides on opposite sides.

[Gerardo]

Also how are you measuring temps/humidity?

[Thursday]

I have a junky thermometer at the moment so it may not be terribly accurate. I'm planning to pick up a digital one tomorrow.


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[Gerardo]

Ok good. Wats the temp of the hot spot?

[Thursday]

I just checked. Says it's above 90. I guess I should cool it down, right?


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[Gerardo]

Its supposed to be 90. You have a temp gun?

[Thursday]

It's on the shopping list! Do you have any recommendations? I brought the temp down a bit with the dimmer on the heat pad. I really appreciate all of your help.


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[BrandyL1193]

With my current set up my light is in the middle for ambient temps and my hot spot has the under tank heater on a thermostat. (With it being so warm upstairs, I haven't even had lights on) if your room is cool though I would worry the ambient temp on the far right is going to be too cold....

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[wideglide]

You will have problems with too little humidity. Might need to ditch the light and put a cover and insulation on that tank.

Rob