Ball python escape

Wow that looks beautiful! I'm still waiting for my 40 long breeder tank to get here so he'll have good hides instead of news paper and other crap. I put some moss in to help with humitity...

Cool, I was just wondering about belly rot. I don't know enough about it to say that it could happen in that set up. I have just read a lot of different threads on this site and they talk about conditions that are to damp, and how that can lead to belly rot. :confuzd:

as a new owner i pretty much worry about every little thing but I would like to know from a more experienced keeper how the substrate should feel to the touch, i assume bone dry is also no good mines damp enough to be darker in colour but not much more.

I am not an experienced keeper but most use paper towels, aspen, or newspaper. I do not know that you coud tell from the "feel". My humidity runs 75 to 80 in the summer, and that is a bit high, but with aspen and paper towels I don't worry about too much build up, her skin should be fine and no scale rot.

I would be a bit concerned over the dampness level of that setup too.

I don't know how effective damp soil is for a ball python.

If a ball python is stuck on anything even slightly damp for a long period of time, it can cause major scale rot and RI issues because the humidity is too high.

It looks like a pain to clean or tell where the deification is too.

its cocoa soil (the stuff comes in a brick) most people use it from what I can tell but i suppose it wouldnt hurt to scartter a little aspen toabsorm any excess moistere, like saw dust i guess

how do you get heat to the belly?that is some thick bedding!