Help! Is she in danger?!

After coiling, you can safely move them...I've never had one let go of the rat while moving them out of the water dish/preventing it from tipping.

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If the temps are a little off, try adding a little more substrate, I have my buy on cypress bedding and I have it piled up a little higher over the heating area, when I measure the temps he is always in roughly the mid to low 80s.

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before anyone asks, I also have a thermostat, just forgot to mention it.

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I have it piled up a little higher over the heating area, when I measure the temps he is always in roughly the mid to low 80s.

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You actually want less bedding over the UTH, UTH's do not increase the ambient temperature so too much substrate could prevent the snake from easy access to the heat source. Also make sure you are not measuring the temps based on the surface temperature of the substrate, ball pythons like to burrow, the surface temp directly above the UTH (without substrate) is always going to be warmer than the temperature at the substrate level. If you are measuring your temps based on the substrate temperature you run the risk you burning your snake.

I measure bottom and top, got a probe under the substrate and one on the top, and another that measures ambient temps throughout. It stays about 90 on bottom and about 85 on top and ambient is about 75-80 on a regular basis. Humidity is still getting worked out right now but still says at a comfortable 55-60%, though sometimes it gets a little higher for some reason, and I have to figure it out.

--PENELOPE UPDATE!--

Just got up and checked on Penny, and she looks like she's back to normal. And she's moved herself away from the side of the tank with the UTH again. I really don't think she likes it at all. When it's on, she doesn't want to stay on that side of the tank hardly at all. But yeah, she looks normal now as if nothing happened. I feel so much better now. And now I can focus on getting her a better home!

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--PENELOPE UPDATE!--

Just got up and checked on Penny, and she looks like she's back to normal. And she's moved herself away from the side of the tank with the UTH again. I really don't think she likes it at all. When it's on, she doesn't want to stay on that side of the tank hardly at all. But yeah, she looks normal now as if nothing happened. I feel so much better now. And now I can focus on getting her a better home!

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Well what's your temperatures on your hot side?

It doesn't sound like you have a
Thermostat or thermometer :/

Have you read the care sheet ? :)

for the UTH, if nothing else, run down to home depot or lowes and get a dimmer switch, usually around the lighting department or just ask one of the people around that area and they can usually get you what you want. I am using them and it works out well enough for me. If you can go to a pet store and pick up a laser thermal reader that would be a great addition to get the heat spot right for you. Before then, the dimmer will at least allow you to provide a decent amount of heat without taking the chance to burn your snake. My dimmers tend to be less than around half way turned on and I hope that helps to get you started until you can get a thermal reader. I think the thermal reader I got was around $25 from pets mart. Best of luck!

No, I don't have a thermometer right now because my ex took it when he gave the other BP we had to his friend before he left. I basically don't have anything for Penny anymore and have to start from scratch.

Please don't worry about that. I'm not one of those people who never mess with my BP. I take Penny out nearly every day and handle her and show her affection (and get affection in return! :D) and ALWAYS peek in on her every few hours or so to make sure she's not doing anything strange and that she's warm and comfortable.

I WILL be getting her thermometers and things like that so she stays happy and healthy. She was thrust upon us rather suddenly, but once she was in my life I couldn't just let her go. I'm fully confident that I can give her a wonderful home and keep her around for a very long time. She's family now, and everyone at home loves her and has complete faith in me to take care of her.

You need good thermometers and a thermostat, stay away from pet stores, as all they sell is overpriced junk.

Get this thermometer/hygrometer from Walmart, it costs $12 and measures 2 temperatures and humidity (the probe goes on the hot side directly above the UTH on the cage floor, and the unit goes on the cool side)

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You will also need a thermostat to regulate your UTH, a thermostat is the most important part of keeping reptiles:

Here are 3 good thermostats, as I said before stay away from the junk sold in pet stores

Budget: http://www.amazon.com/Hydrofarm-MTPR.../dp/B000NZZG3S

Mid-Range: http://www.reptilebasics.com/ranco-etc-111000-pre-wired

High Quality: http://spyderrobotics.com/home/products.html

Any time one of mine gets in the water I just grab it and set it to the side of the bowl while its still killing the rodent, won't hurt anything :D


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