Today I thought it would be a good spontaneous idea to surprise the fiancè with a Ball Python (She's always wanted one) so I went to my local pet store and picked out the friendliest hatchling they had. After that, the woman who helped my find a 10 Gallon Glass cage for it, heating lamp, Aspen Bedding and a water bowl (in the form of a purple rock, I actually quite like it). So, after everything is set up, I started doing some heavy research on Ball Python care and actually learned quite a few new things from this site (Thank You!). So I find as of now, we're quite unprepared for taking long term care of this Python, which we will be correcting upon our next pay day. The only big issue we have right now is heating. From my research, this is quite a murky area, and by murky, I mean a lot of mixed opinions on whats best which left me a bit confused. I'm using a 60W heating lamp I'm keeping on one side of the tank, but I don't know if that's enough. I plan to correct this mistake with a heating pad and dimmer switches, but will my new Python be okay in the next week and a half before I can get this new heating pad? Also, when is a good time to turn on and off this lamp? I'm told their nocturnal and to keep it off at night, turn it on during the day but I work during the night and the Fiancè works during the day so this brings up quite the confusion on when to turn it off and on. It also gets quite cold in here at night. We live in Florida so it's basically hot all the time here and use a Central AC unit where we can't set up custom temp for a specific room and we're unsure if it's safe to turn it off at all without a heating pad. There's also the question of humidity, to which we're given no numbers of what's good or bad, only that humidity is good. I apologize for the long explanation and hope to be enlightened on this new adventure. Thank you in advanced!