new ball python owners

hello were new ball python owners if there is any tips other owners have for us it would help. Also our new baby is only 3 1/2 months old and hardly been picked up is there any tips that we should know he is a little shy but he eats really great for us 2 fuzzies every 7 days hes a little piggy.

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Check out this thread if you haven't already, and welcome!

Congrats on the BP!

Are you feeding rat or mice fuzzies? If mice those are way too tiny, I'd bump him up to at least mouse weanlings/adults or comparably sized rats.

we feed him rats fuzzies i think how do u go about picking him up he is kinda weird about it also what kind of lighting should i use hes in a glass tank with a heat mat

Does your heat mat have a thermostat regulating it?

Check out this thread: http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...t-Thermometers

To pick up a BP you need to be slow and careful. Try to support as much of the snake as possible and try to keep movements slow and direct.

we have a thermous state in the tank we have a light ontop a heat lamp can i get rid of that or should i keep it and get a diffrent light thank u for helping

ThermoSTAT
or
ThermoMETER?

Thermostats use a temperature probe to regulate a heat source, while thermometers only measure temperature. Both are necessary

What are your current cage temperatures and what specific devices are you using to measure/regulate temperatures with?

How cold is the room that the cage is in?

thermostat and the room is 75 temp on the hot side is 85 cool side 75 humidity is 55 he has 2 hides and large water bowl and some plastic plants to hide in also a stick from africa to climb and help with shedding.

85 is too cold for the hot side temperature. You need to have a hot side of 88-92 degrees and a cool side of 78-82 degrees. No part of the cage should ever get above 95 or below 75 degrees.

ok what about the light what should i do with that

i just looked and the hot side is 87 and cool side is 78 i turned the heat up in the room hes in

Where is the thermostat probe? do you have any probed thermometers?

As of right now you cage is too cold overall so you will need to keep on using a heat lamp as well as the UTH. I would suggest a 75 watt infrared heat bulb: http://www.petsmart.com/product/inde...AvailInUS%2FNo

I suggest tossing the light, and getting an under tank heater, there are many threads for sizes and types, uth dont absorb so much humidity and can be less stressfull allowing more ambient light in, i suggest looking at a thread that is specific the UTH vs heat lamps