Hey guys! I bought my first ball python a week ago at petco. I did research quite a bit before I got her, but have been doing tons of research since I got her. I put her cage in the corner of my bedroom, and covered the back and sides with cardboard, I can also open a closet door to cover the front to offer more privacy if I’d like.. I have a UTH on the left side with a thermostat set to 92. I also have one of those nocturnal red light bulbs. (which I tried to replace with a 100w ceramic heating lamp yesterday, but it wasn’t getting the ambient temperature high enough, so I ordered a 150w ceramic heat lamp, which will arrive at my House tommorrow, and I will replace the red light.) the lamp is also on a thermostat set to 90 degrees. I covered the top of the screen with tin tape, the kind you use on vents, like on the back of a dryer. For the substrate I used eco earth, and forest floor cypress mulch.