Keeping Ball Pythons in Bins

[Kyndrakeen]

I keep my ballpythons in tanks, with substrate and heating and lamps and water and everything. Warm side cool side, the whole nine yards. So my question is how do you keep snakes in bins? do you not use heating at all? there cant possibly be a cool side and a warm side from what i have seen because they are relatively small? I guess i just want to know everything about how to care for you BP in a bin because i am slightly interested but it seems so different from keeping them in a tank so i would just appreciate if someone would explain it to me please and thank you. I have a normal ball python and a fancy pastel ball python.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Adult tubs have the same footprint than most 30 gallons tank the difference is the height.

As for heat it's done the same way than any other enclosure UTH or heat Tape + reliable Thermostat you can do that with something that is as small as a 6 quarts tub or as big as a 41 quarts (usually used for adult females.)

[Sauzo]

If you are using flexwatt with bins or even flexwatt with any caging, the ambient temps are going to need to be controlled by the room itself. So unless you run an oil filled radiator on something like a Herpstat HP or you just keep your house in the high 70s like i do, flexwatt alone probably wont work nor will tubs.

Like i said, i use cage stacks and the ambient in the cages is around 80F. Then they have a hot spot of 92F with flexwatt. This is for everyone. The humidity is varied depending on my retic, boas, BP and dumerils.

If you arent breeding and just keeping a few pets, my vote is go for stackable PVC cages, They have a more efficient footprint and much easier to get the husbandry correct on than tanks. Tubs/racks are great if you are breeding.

Here is an example. This is my 3 AP T10 cages on the left and 3 AP T8 cages on the right and soon to be 3 AP T25s to the right of the T8s. All 9 cages will take up about 16' of wall which isnt too bad. This pic is kind of old as i have switched back to aspen and given Dottie her smaller hides back which were on the roof of the right stack as she doesnt care for the larger hides.

[monks98]

We use bins for our 18. We use UTH and herpstats. They are in a room to themselves so it is temperature and humidity controlled with a heater/humidifier hubs got from somewhere. The hot part of the tub is at the back, the cool at the front.

Using tubs eliminates the need for hides and BPs don't require heat lamps. We actually had a snake that refused to eat. Bought our first rack system...put him in...he immediately started eating and hasn't stopped in 2 years!

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[BallPythonWannaBe]

A fancy pastel ball python? Is this a morph I haven't heard of?

[JodanOrNoDan]

A fancy pastel ball python? Is this a morph I haven't heard of?

It is just pastel. Fancy is a word a pet store uses to make an animal sound more desirable.