New to all things Reptile

The moist towel will do wonders. The lamps (you only need one black light ) goes on one side of the cage (the same side as your UTH). Here is a good trick meaning you can't get a thermostat right now but it will take a few days to dial in just right. Put the UTH on a timer and figure out how much your heat drops to keep it constant if that makes sence. I bury the access wire from my probe and put the acctual probe on top of my substrate. It is gonna take some time to dial in your tank but once you do it is like clock work Like I said before if you use hot water for your towel it will raise the temp in your tank. But it will also hugely boost humidity. I run my black light 24 hours a day. It is on a light dimmer so I have a bit more control with it. If you are still having issues personal messages and I will try to help the best I can. Remember pictures help a lot so we can see exactly what is going on and can make corrections better.

Good luck

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Heres my setup. UTH on left side and you can see what lights are where. i just dont get how my left side stays warmer over the right.and the right side at night drops to the mid 70's. Thats also just a paper towel in the backround that i soaked this morning to try and keep humidty up. didnt work to well cause it was dryed out by the time i got home. unless a need like a washcloth for this to work and the humdity still didnt hold up as high

p.s. and sorry for the glare took pic with laptop

Here's a good place to start:
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...p-w-pics-*DUW*

Keeping humidity up in a tank can be hard if you don't alter it. I'm currently using a glass tank (though I'll be switching to my PVC cage as soon as it arrives) and with a combination of taping aluminum foil to the screen and using coconut coir substrate (also called EcoEarth) I'm having a hard time keeping my humidity LOW enough. Also, lamps suck up humidity crazy fast (which I know from keeping a tortoise) so those are not helping.

Try ditching the lamps (they really don't need the light), cover most of the screen with foil and duct tape (keep a couple inches on either side open), and switch the substrate to coconut coir. Cover the sides of the tank with the Con-Tact liner jfreels mentions in the thread I posted. Keep the tank in a room with 80 deg ambient temps if possible. This should help.

ETA: Also, some more secure hides would be nice. BPs prefer something more enclosed. See http://www.reptilebasics.com/hide-boxes for a good example.

Also ditch the wood hides they aren't that great of a choice for BPs. They live most of their lives in a termite mound in the wild so think like that. Your left side is going to be warmer because of light and UTH. I am totally in agreeable with gruneaugen86 I would post a pic of my set up but I don't know how with my dum dum iPhone lol

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http://m1257.photobucket.com/albumvi...l?o=0&newest=1 I hope that worked

ok this one should work... I got a rock in there right now so he has something a little rough to help with his shed Moist towel on top to help with humidity.

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