Hi everyone! as you may have seen i just registered in this forum! After having a bunch of leopard geckos and watching every snakebytes.tv video! Ive been doing my research and decided to buy a baby ball python! I live in spain, what decreases a lot my selection of morphs... but a simple pastel can run you in euros the equivalent to 400$ and a normal ball 54$ so im kinda thinking on a pastel because after every cool morph ive seen online a plain normal just doesnt look fancy enough... Anyways i intend to keep it in a tub... and i have seen many people not even providing a heat source to them... bare in mind climate at spain tends to be hot...although i keep my leos in racks with a heat cable... would that do to the ball? or do i have to get into some sort of heat mat? if so will the heat mat melt the tub? In spain ball python sizes are kinda hard to find an intermediate level... or either they are hatchlings that havent had their first meal or they are subadults.... i was looking more into the hatchling because im really excited on seeing the snake grow as well as the smaller the size of the snake when its introduced home the better for my parents! I've kinda heard many stories of having to introduce a pinky mice in the hatchlings mouth and slowly try to push it in for a bit until they actually bite firmly and start eating it... is this true? please tell me any tips you guys know! thanks!