Hello, I've recently purchased my first Ball Python about 2 and half weeks ago. He's pretty nice looking seems healthy and happy. He has typical behavior from what I’ve read. He is hidden most of the day and is active at night. He has not eaten yet. The guy who sold him too me owns a reptile store and breeds them, he told me to wait a few days then try to feed him, the snake has refused food since I’ve gotten him. I was told he has only eaten pre killed, which is what I’ve been trying too feed him. I've been writing on another forum and people there have helped me make changes and adjustments to my setup. I have a 20-gallon reptile tank with 2 hot boxes and a under tank heater. The heater is controlled by a reptile temp controller, which I just purchased because of others on forums. I tried using a heat lamp as well but it seemed to make things too hot and dried everything up, the humidity now seems fine. There's a probe thermometer inside the hot hide box, which sits inside but is stuck in through a hole in the back doesn’t touch the ground, it stays at a good temperature in the low 90's usually and the cold side usually says about high 70's to low 80's just from the reading at the top of the cage. The snake seems to prefer the cold box, which concerns me; today I drilled some holes in the top of the hot box to let some air out. The snake went inside and came out usually 10 minutes later with sweat and moisture on him. So I hope that he starts using it. I have two pictures one of my snake and one of the enclosures. I’m only concern right now is if I should be using a heat lamp of some kind to help the air temperature, because if he spends most of his time in the cold box then he will not be getting the heat he needs. Other than that I really don’t want to mix things up too much anymore, I’ve made a lot of changes since I’ve gotten him and feel like I’m stressing him so I’d like to be able to leave him completely alone for over a week and see how he does. So check out my pictures and any suggestions would be appreciated.

--Andrew

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