I'm a first time snake owner, and I just got my pastel ball python two days ago. He is 2 years old and kind of a big boy. I'd like to have an opinion on weather or not my tank setup is good enough to keep my snake healthy and stress-free. I have him in a 55 gallon tank with two large hides on each end, each hide covers the whole end of the tank so that there is no space behind it or beside it. I have a medium-ish water bowl that's about and inch deep that he can only fit about 3 or 4 inches of the front of his body in, enough for his head to soak or for him to soak his tail to poop in the water if he wants. I have an analog thermometer at each side of the tank at about mid height and an analog hygrometer at mid height right in the middle of the tank (both thermometers and the hygrometer are small ones from zoo med). I'm currently using the eco earth substrate, just enough to lightly cover the bottom of the tank (sometimes the substrate moves and exposes some glass. I have an 8.5" dome clamp lamp that I set right on top of the wire tank with a 100w bulb and on the cool side of the tank I have a smaller dome with a 75w black light bulb (marketed as a nighttime bulb). The bulbs are both right on the mesh screen about 13 inches above the substrate. On the warm side I have a 50-60gallon zoo med heat pad and on the cool side I have a 5-10gallon heat pad under his hide. The large heat lamp, large heat pad, and small heat pad are all plugged into a thermostat which is set to 85 F. The probe for the thermostat is taped on the large heat pad under the tank. My logic for this is that both heat pads heat at the same rate and temp so having the probe on one is ok and the heat lamp is so far above the substrate that it only knocks the temp up an additional 5 F so I plug it into the thermostat so the bulb can take a brake every once in a while (I'm scared about the bulb busting and hurting the snake). The 75w light stays on 24/7 except for when I take the screen off to hold my snake. I try to keep the humidity between 50%-60% by putting a damp towel over the top of the mesh screen, if that doesn't knock it up to sufficient levels, then ill spray the sides of the tank a bunch and then over the substrate and snake just a little bit (he kinda likes it). I want to know if what I'm doing is alright and if not what I should be doing. I don't have much to spend, only about $100 put away for snake food until my b-day. Pictures of tank available upon request. Any help is greatly appreciated, I do love my snake <3