So since I've gotten my baby ball python Jacques (not my first), I've kept him in a tub with cocofiber, two hides, water dish, and no heat except his tub is on top of my other bps tank, right next to her heat lamp (and my room gets ungodly hot in the summer due to no AC).

Well it's undergone a renovation and I feel much better about it. His humidity was way too high, so I switched to newspaper, got him a better hide, got a thermometer/hygrometer (though I will go and get an acurite soon, with a probe), put an uth outside under one hide, bottle caps taped to each corner to keep the uth up off the surface the tub is sitting on, black paper and black eletrical tape around three sides of the tub to keep it a little darker, leaving the front so I can see through to read the temps/humidity without taking the lid off.

Some pics




And in other news, I got an acurite for my other bp (she's a big girl, 3.5', in a 40 gal tank) and even though I only have a heat lamp (red bulb) her temps and humidity are spot on! 82 cool side, 92 hot side, 56% humidity. Though it goes up on really hot days and I turn the lamp off. Should I get her an uth anyway, and go for a lower wattage bulb, and see if I can get the same results? Not sure if I want to mess with it. I don't really want to move her into a tub even though I know it's easier, because she seems to be doing well (she loves f/t rats like a fat kid loves cake) and I like having her as a bit of a display snake. Though once it gets closer to winter I have a feeling I'll need the uth.