We purchased our newest addition to our family yesterday, our first snake! She is a female ball python! Myself and my husband have always been interested in snakes but never could commit before, it took some convincing on my part as my husband wanted to jump in and get an green tree python but I finally got him to agree on a ball python until we're more experienced 🎉 She is really friendly the chances we've had to handle her, she makes no attempt to strike at us. She does ball up a little but then unballs and explores our arms and hands. She even drove home from the pet store in my husbands hand 😍 The pet store we got her from said she eats large fuzzies but hasn't eaten since she arrived which was Wednesday but not to feed her for another week.She's currently in a 10 gallon tank on aspen bedding with overhead lamps.



The only problems we've had so far is regarding heat. We have a dual lamp and the pet store told us to keep the day bulb and night bulb on during the day but turn the day bulb off at night, they suggested a 15watt for the day bulb and 100 watts for the purple night bulb however we've found having them both on during the day made it far too hot 100f+ so I turned off the night light and went to a pet store, they also said they need both lights as one is just a light and the other is heat? Because the 100 watt night bulb was too strong they said we should buy the 75 watt bulb. It's now night time so the day light is off but the temperature on the warm side is 85f, the cooler side is 75/78f and the humidity is 65. The temperature is too warm for night time right? I think I'm gonna need to go back and get a 50 watt night bulb. I'm so confused to what is right? I just want what's best for her. Any help will be greatly appreciated!! Here's Violet 😍