Quote Originally Posted by serpent fan View Post
I was told buy my local fish store employee that i wasted my money with the heat pad, and that for balls i really should just use a heat lamp only, wont that dry my tank out, and arent balls better with belly heat? Just got confused
The employees at local pet stores rarely know anything. I went into a petco last week and saw a baby BP in basically an arboreal snake setup in a high glass tank w a heat lamp and no hides at all just a branch. I asked if it had belly heat and he said no, we put the lamp and after a while he only likes to stay on the branch under the lamp. I then suggested to the worker that they should add a hide so he's not so stressed out and maybe a UTH. He just said "oh, nah, he's good he likes it setup like that".. It pissed me off so much, I was going to just rescue it and buy it, but they wanted $100 for a normal BP