Some advice Please

The bulb is the reason your snake doesn't shed right. Bulbs wick out all the humidity. You'll need to completely cover the screen top with something like wax paper or foil taped down around the edges except around the heat lamp. This will hold some moisture and heat in.

Also change your bedding. Aspen is not that great for tanks in my opinion, especially with heat lamps. Its way too dry. It doesn't hold moisture. You will need to spray it down daily to keep the humidity high enough. Aspen will also mold very quickly when it gets slightly wet. If you switch to cypress mulch bedding it will hold the moisture for days and it does not mold. It's still as easy to spot clean as well. You'll barely ever have to spray it.

Low humidity also can lead to RI and stuck eye caps.

Fix your husbandry issues and feed it proper sized meals more often and it will be happier and healthier.

By the way, that care sheet, is the best one you can find anywhere for ball pythons. A UTH on a thermostat to regulate it is far safer than any bulb. Completely covering screen tops of tanks is always recommended as well to hold in heat and humidity. Also attaching a thin layer of cardboard or pink insulation sheets (painted to look however you like) to 3 sides of the tank is a great idea to insulate it as well. Glass tanks are horrible for reptiles since they do not hold heat in and most of us don't use them but there are ways to compensate :)

Wow thank you all so much. So you all feel that a UTH is better and safer, havent heard of fires from them? What is the best things to get to control the temp on them? We did use a UTH for a while and used a reostat by zoomed i think it was, and it did not hold the temp right it kept going up over 100 it was scarey. Also we had used other bedding before I thinkwe used cypress and her scales started looking weird so we changed back to aspen and now they are normal looking.

UTH can and have caused fires but it is very rare. Heat bulbs are much more likely to overheat.

To control a UTH the best thing to get us a Herpstat. A Herpstat is extremely accurate and will keep the UTH at the right temperature. (the zoo-med thermostats are crap)

Here is a link to the Herpstat website:

http://spyderrobotics.com/

If you are going to use a UTH I would recommend that you use paper towels/newspaper/corrugated wrap as substrate.

UTH's don't effect air temperature so if your room stays below 75 degrees most of the time I would recommend that you just stick with the heat lamp.

I really like the aspen bedding, can I stick with that? That herpostat is way to expensive for us right now any other good suggestions? So either way I should use a UTH and a heat lamp? I can't just use one or the other? Thanks again for being so helpful I am sure I am being very annoying and sorry if I am.

Foschi beat me to it...You guys sure can type fast for being so early on a Sat morning...

No, the entire point of this website is to help people, not annoying at all :)

You can use both at the same time but i personally don't see the point. A heat bulb can get the hot side hot enough alone and if yiur room temperatures are high enough to use a UTH the it's all you need. If you want to keep using aspen it needs to be a thin layer (1/2" thick or less otherwise the UTH cannot heat through the aspen)

These thermostats are also good, cost less, but aren't as accurate:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000NZZG3S

So if I just want to use a heating bulb this is fine? But not as safe as far as fires?

Fires are extremely rare no matter what the heat source is. You can just use a heat lamp, I used heat lamps exclusively for awhile when I first started. The heat lamp will need to be on 24/7 so the bulb I put a link to in my first post on this thread will be important (a bright white light will stress your snake.

as far as the bedding i dont know if anyone uses it but my breeder and i use if its moss it doesent mold it holds mosture extremely well it isnt pretty to look at but all my snakes have shed correctly everytime and people that use is havnt had any problems with it it comes in a cube you soak it squeeze the excess water out as much as you can and then its good to go ive never been happier i didnt like aspen myself because when i tried to mist it the heat would mold it so give the moss a try i like it

I will go with that heat bulb its a 75W? is that the strength I should get. Will the red light confuse her with daylight and night light? I dont like to use moist bedding due to her scales looking funny when it was used almost looked like scale rot which is all clear now. Should I make a humid hide? Or what can I do to keep humidity up if I continue to use aspen?