Newbie here temp?

My basket area is 96° to 98° day and night. My cold side is 83° to 85° Is that too hot?I have 100w white light for day and 100w red light for night.

Yes, that is too hot. I keep my warm side around 87 and my cool side around 78. Many care sheets show 90 on warm and 80 on cool.

Are you only using lights for heating? Do you have any belly heat?

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...s%29-Caresheet

No UTH just lights

Your temps are high. Lamps can be placed on a dimmer to adjust the output and power. This can be a fair bit of work however they will need to be adjusted when the room temp changes. For the moment you could raise them up some to drop your temps.

Many choose a heat source that can be regulated with a thermostat like a uth or even a ceramic heat emitter that would fit into your lamp housing.


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Ok I'm getting heat down. Now got work on the humidity.

I tried this, before i got my herpstat and was on a dimmer for my uth, i got bored one day and used the dimmer with my infrared bulb, bulb burned out after 3 days, i dont think these bulbs were meant for that

Yeh those hot side temps are way to high, my BP wont go near the hot side if its anything above 92, only on the rare occasion when he is in shed or after a meal. Hes usually on the cold side hide which i keep between 80-84

Temps come first. Temps regulate all body functions and make quick (days) differences humidity can be quite low for quite a while with no adverse effects. Humidity is not a huge issue unless it is very high in an enclosure that is poorly ventilated


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On a touch of a side note you may find ir lights more disrupting than dark blue lighting is. Infrared hunting snakes (ie pythons) are 'tuned' to that end of the spectrum.


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Kitedemon

So your opposed to using these type of bulbs? http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/31/duju9avu.jpg