Question about Temperatures and Humidity

Hello everyone! I have a few simple questions I hope can be answered... Question 1: What is a good range for AMBIENT temperatures in my Ball Python's Environment? Question 2: What is a good UTH/Basking temperature for my Ball Python's environment? Question 3: What is a good humidity range for my Ball Python's environment?

Thanks in advance! :snake:

All of that can be found in the carsheet.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ius)-Caresheet

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Originally Posted by KMG

All of that can be found in the carsheet.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ius)-Caresheet

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Oh silly me, I totally forgot about the care sheet, thanks!

As regards temperatures .....

Whilst having a massive re - think in the reptile room ....shuffling vivs around and also moving snakes into bigger vivs etc ..
I was just having a root around looking were all the damn wires were coming and going and I pulled on a wire rather too strongly and ended up looking at two bare wires ( one black one blue ) soldered together .... being held in my hand !

My first thought was panic as everything was still plugged in and so LIVE but I quickly realised that it was the thermostat probe that had simply slipped out of its waterproof sleeve . Anyways I carefully stuck it back in the little black plastic sleeve thingy and it's working perfectly.

Its just that I always presumed that there would be an expensive piece of complex scientific electrical wonderment at the end of a probe !

I'd never of thought that the end of a probe was just two wires soldered together :)

Ambient typically have a long range, 74ºF on the low end (dips can be tolerated but not for extended periods) and typically 85ºF is an acceptable standard set up high end ambient. Some large scale breeders keep ambients higher but they often do not have hot spots at the same time likely not something a beginner should do.

Hot spots vary a bit smaller snakes often do better (IMO) with lower hot spots I keep my baby royals at 88ºF adults get a warmer hot spot around 90ºF but most accept 94ºF as a high acceptable.

Humidity is more complex an answer. Royals need around 15.5 gm/m3 of water vapour for a good shed. Like all % the amount varies. (10% of a 1000000 is very different than 10% of 10) Relative humidity % is the same the actual humidity varies as the ambient temp changes.

Loosely

@80ºF you need 60% RH (15.5gm/m3)
@74ºF you need 72% RH (also 15.5gm/m3)
@85ºF you need 51% RH (still 15.5gm/m3)

The warmer the air the more moisture the air holds. Outside in the winter (if you get winter...) 60% RH is dry in the summer 60% is humid.