A couple weeks ago my GF brought home an extremely sick BP to try and nurse back to health (earlier posts). Unfortunately that didn't go too well and he ended up dying. She's been really wanting to get a BP for a month or so and finally pulled the trigger.

He's about 1.5-2' long and housed in a 20 gal tank with a locking screen top at the moment. The tank furniture/ decor includes a couple climbing trees, a hidey hole log and a large water bowl the snake can completely fit in to bathe. All of this is surrounded by aspen substrate. A heat lamp on one side, a heating pad under the log and an infra-red lamp on the other provide the heat. Currently the 'cool' side is running at 80 degrees on the dot. The basking area is running at 85ish- may have to get another lamp to get to the recommended 90 degrees. What do y'all think? NEED 90 degrees or is 85 fine?

Hygrometer and 2 thermometers in the tank to measure the 2 sides. Humidity is at 45% at the moment, which is low from what I've read. I'm hoping the water bowl will evaporate a bit and bring up the humidity. Is misting the entire enclosure a good idea or just a waste of time? Was thinking about making or getting an auto mister if the humidity doesn't increase a bit.

We just set up the cage an hour or 2 ago so we're trying different configs for the heat.

He's been very active, climbing all over the place, inspecting for escape routes and generally running all over the place. He went throught the hidey-hole log to inspect, but didn't stay long. I'm very surprised that he's so active, especially after a relatively long car ride in a really small container.

Any recommendations on what we should do from here?

Also, need to think of a couple names....