New Guy

[mike_yorkpa]

Jessica, I'm doing a show tank so I picked up another hide identical to the one that came with the kit my girlfriend bought me.

I also bought a red light, UTH, a wrap around for the tanks sides and back, an acurite thermometer everyone on the forum was suggesting as well as a thermostat by Hydrofarm which should be here Thursday. I plan on running everything until Saturday afternoon to make sure all is well then picking up the little guy.


Random questions for you all, all of which I either missed in the 20+pages I've gone through on here or they just aren't there:

Once I have my bundle of joy, how long should I wait to handle, if any wait at all?
How often/long do you handle your young, adolescent and adult snakes?
Do I need a water treatment for when I replace his water?

[jessica87]

Once I have my bundle of joy, how long should I wait to handle, if any wait at all?

Wait for a week, so he/she can be familiar with his/her new home.

How often/long do you handle your young, adolescent and adult snakes?

I handle them until the 2-days after their first feeding with me. So a total of 9-days I wait.
The first few weeks I handle them 2-3 times a week for about 20 mins. Now, they don't mind being held. It just takes patience.

Do I need a water treatment for when I replace his water?

My water here is a bit hard, so I use the zoo med water treatment only one droplet every 4-oz of water. Does it work? I don't know lol

[winglesshornet]

Here's What I'am using:

I would round them sharp corners off a bit at the lips of them containers (Bottom of the opening) to prevent them from getting under your snakes scales, especially the belly scales. I had a friend of mine who had that happen and hadn't thought anything of it.

[jessica87]

I would round them sharp corners off a bit at the lips of them containers (Bottom of the opening) to prevent them from getting under your snakes scales, especially the belly scales. I had a friend of mine who had that happen and hadn't thought anything of it.

You are right, It did this one last night for my newest addition's, I was rushing to take a photo and throw in the tub for the mean time, Thanks for saying something I forgot all about it today

[mike_yorkpa]

First off thank you all for your help! I know newbies can get annoying sometimes Im a gun guy and i know hearing the same question over in a different context can be annoying sometimes

Okay well I have everything I have said I would get (Thermostat to arrive tomorrow)

I was bored so i set up the tank the way I think Id like to do it and put the heat lamp on and put the thermometer in to see what the humidity would be as well as what the ambient temp would be. Im sure this isn't much help but what can i say, IM DAMN EXCITED! Obviously theres no substrate or water in so I'm sure my humidity will go up a bit but looks like Ill have to cover part of the screen. Hot side is on the left, cool on the right.

Can you guys confirm this stuff I've found throughout the forum?

Hot side: 90-94 degrees (UTC will be installed under hide with thermostat)
Cool side: 80-92 degrees
Ambient: 80-90 degrees
Humidity: 40-60% up to 80% during shed

How do you guys feel about the heat lamp right in the middle?

[jessica87]

I would keep it either on the left or right where ever your cool side is, leaving it in the middle you would have one side cold where your bp will never go (which my did). I guess it depends on room temperature

Check this out:

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ius)-Caresheet

[mike_yorkpa]

Heres the final product. Thermostat, Accurite, head pad, light, substrate and everything else is set. The Hydrofarm is set to 101, that gives me an inside temp of 91 as you see in the picture, cool side and humidity has stay constant for about 2 hours. The substrate was added about 3 hours ago so I'm sure as substrate dries a little humidity will go down.

What do you all think?

[pbyeerts]

Congratulations on your first BP! I've had my Oliver for about 1 month now, and he's a great snake. Your setup looks great

[Mr. Misha]

Looks good! One suggestion though: move the accurite to the cool side of the tank so you know what the ambient temp is.

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[mike_yorkpa]

Looks good! One suggestion though: move the accurite to the cool side of the tank so you know what the ambient temp is.

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It is actually on the cool side believe it or not lol the 50 watt red light is keeping the tank about 85 degree since about 5pm yesterday I double checked this morning at 8am. The hot side is 91 degrees because of the UTH