Hello everyone, I am one very excited yet nervous BP owner.

Thursday I went up to see Kara at NERD and got an unbeleivable tour as well as a setup and beautiful snake. Before I begin I have to say that Kara is just a super cool/kind individual. She took a major amount of time showing me around and I was just blown away with their facility and the beautiful animals within it. Anyway, before I begin let me just say that Kara did explain how I should set the tank up but there was so much going on that not much of it sank in which brings me here. She is a very busy girl and if I don't have to nag her and get questions answered here GREAT!

OK, Here is a picture of the enclosure I bought for the new boy. The cage was built buy Kevin and Kara (I beleive), very cool.



Anyway, I have a 50-60 gallon sized T-Rex heat mat connected to a CA RF100 thermostat. The mat is butted up against the left side of the cage but extends about 2 thirds accross the cage. I have the probe to the thermostat on top of the bedding under his hide. I have a digital thermometer set on the other side which will ( I hope anyway) be the cool side with the probe on to of the cypress there. I have the snakes other hide and waterbowls but I havent put them in yet seeing there is no need seeing the snake I bought still resides at NERD for the time being. My hopes are to try and get everything dialed in so I can go bring the boy home next Saturday. My fingers are crossed!

OK, at 6:00 I plugged the heat mat/thermostat in and set it on 95. At 7:00 the temp was 74.5. How long does it take to bring temps up when turning a thermostat on for the first time? Also, the humidity is reading 94% but I am assuming that's because I just put new/wet cypress mulch in the cage a minute before plugging everything in.

I see a ton of stuff on setting up glass tank setups but very little PVC enclosures like this. Can anyone help shed some light on this for me? I am really excited but very nervous things arent going to work out very easily on this. Hopefully I ca get things together so I can go bring the man home.

Thanks a ton iin advance for any help.

~Jason