Check list...need you to review it

So I'm going to get my equipment monday and probably a snake wednesday (found a local breeder). Let me know if I need to add to the check list

-UTH
-Thermostat
-Thermometer/hyrdrometer (digital)
-10 gal with lid and locks
-two hides
-water dish

Another thing.... the pet store sells hides and water dishes very costly. Is there a way to use inexpensive stuff for hides and water dish? I'm getting a baby ball.

Thanks

Need to decide on a substrate, paper, aspen, coconut bark, mulch, just remember...NO pine or cedar. Cereal bowl from Walmart $1.00 for water. Black tupperwear containers with holes cut in them make good hides, Use your imagination, don't pay those pet store prices.

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Originally Posted by FatBoy

Need to decide on a substrate, paper, aspen, coconut bark, mulch, just remember...NO pine or cedar. Cereal bowl from Walmart $1.00 for water. Black tupperwear containers with holes cut in them make good hides, Use your imagination, don't pay those pet store prices.

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ditto

Yeah I forgot to say I'm using paper towels

Hope you don't mind me busting into your thread. :-)
I was going to get some smallish plastic bowls on sale at my local grocery for $1 each, but I was afraid they'd be too light and the snake would move them around. They are those lovely bright summer picnic colors, but I don't care if they snake won't!

For a water bowl, Petco sell some nice ceramic bowls for like $2.50. I use the 3.5 inch eggshell colored ones for small snakes/balls. They are found in the small animal section, not in the reptile section.
Papertowels are fine and easy to find anywhere.
I agree with the small tupperware with an entrance cut in it. Don't use the lid and just turn it over and make like a cave entrance. If they don't have black, pretty much any color will do.
If your lid will be a screen top,you will need to cover say 80% with some kind of plastic to retain humidity and heat.
Thermostats can be expensive. You may try a dimmer switch or reostat. Some cheaper ones can be found at Lowes or Home Depot.

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Originally Posted by Zafra

Hope you don't mind me busting into your thread. :-)
I was going to get some smallish plastic bowls on sale at my local grocery for $1 each, but I was afraid they'd be too light and the snake would move them around. They are those lovely bright summer picnic colors, but I don't care if they snake won't!

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The plastic bowls do tip easily. At night when your BP is roaming they have a tendency to crawl over them and tip them. Cut a hole in them, turn them upside down and use them as hides. I get the glass bowls in the housewear dept for water bowls, they are too heavy to tip.

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Originally Posted by Zafra

Hope you don't mind me busting into your thread. :-)
I was going to get some smallish plastic bowls on sale at my local grocery for $1 each, but I was afraid they'd be too light and the snake would move them around. They are those lovely bright summer picnic colors, but I don't care if they snake won't!

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THANKS! That was gonna be my next question:gj:

Here is a nice digital unit. They are running a sale right now too.
http://www.petmountain.com/product/r...ermometer.html

Or you could go to Walmart and get an Accurite and do this.
http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=92057

Oh yeah, almost forgot, theses are really good enclosures and are very secure too.
http://www.zilla-rules.com/products/critter-cages.htm