Several months ago I bought a normal baby ball from the local pet store. The first mistake I made was that I did no research before buying. The second mistake was believing that the sales person knew what he was talking about and that all I needed to do was throw it a mouse once a week. Boy I was wrong. His shed was bad, he did'nt eat for over 2 months and I was ready to get rid of the darn thing. Then LORD and Behold I found you guys. After all this time his set up was all wrong. He was in a 10 gal tank, heatlamp, uth, one hide, no thermometer or humidy reader. With your help I got rid of all that and made a rubbermaid set up with human heat pad, accurite reader, 2 hides and got his temps and humidity under control. Since then there has been a 110% change. He is so active now and he's been eating live adult mice on a weekly basis. He has gone through two sheds, the first was broken into three pieces and the last one was a perfect shed, no breaks at all. Not only I know my snake is happy know, but so am I. So thanks for all your help in making this a really happy beginning for both me and my snake.