Ok, so I bought a ball python. Not sure how old it is or even what the sex is. I was always intrigued by the ball python. Just a beautiful animal. Now I have one and I want to make sure I am doing my "husbandry?" correct. I have it in a 10gal glass terrarium. I have two lights one for day and one for night. I have a reptitherm uth heating pad and a small hide and a faux tree plant and a watering rock. I am using ecoearth as a substrate. I am having lots of trouble keeping the ambient temps up and the humidity. I have a screen top and I have tried covering most that I can with towels to try and keep everything in. How can I fix this? I have thought about just going to plastic tubs, but how would I set that up and is it a good choice. There is a lot of controversy over that issue I am seeing. Also, I tried doing the F/T route for feeding but he/she just wasn't interested. I did a live yesterday and it took it within less than 10 seconds. Also, I keep seeing people posting things such as pastel .1, what does this mean. I am very interested in delving deeper in so i can properly care for my new friend.