pet store (please read)

[wutanga13x]

from what i've heard, bp's absorb heat from the ground, but doesnt mean they burrow. and heat lamps seem to be drying out my tank all the time. i have a hard time keeping it at 50 percent humidity.

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

That lady is FOS!

My boas and borneos borrow. None of my 30 ball pythons burrow.

Lights wick out humidity and belly heat aids digestion.

Tell that lady she needs to join bp.net and figure out how to care for those animals.

[chrispouliot55]

yeah i know. she dont know jack about them, maybe if i had a sand boa!

[Kaorte]

Rule #1: Do not listen to pet store employees advice.

[CopperNightShade]

I think that my balls have NEVER burrowed, that's more a corn snake thing...but that being said, I've had both UTH and Light heat sources and haven't noticed a difference one way or another. My first ball is still in an all light heated tank and my female is in a Sterlite container with a UTH, both are happy and healthy, though controlling humidity is a lot harder with light heat sources and they break. So for aesthetics, I prefer light, for function, UTHs seem to work better.

Second this! If it was a corn snake, it would be something to consider. But ball pythons don't normally burrow.

[BPelizabeth]

Foschi...lol but she is totally right! BP's really need the belly heat to digest. You can do it with lights but it is a pain in the butt. As far as burrowing.....I have 2 that will burrow but the ONLY time that mine do this is after I have cleaned their cage. I think they are just rearranging in their own way.

[Kuba]

Well if the stores name was PetSmart than they need to change the name to PetDumb,

[CRAZY]

I would think that anybody who has ever seen a BP borrow, it's because they didn't have proper hides. My local family pet business (which is amazing when it comes to all animals) doesn't give their BP's hides, so that costumers can see them. But they do put them in the back in a low traffic area so only the people who want to see them do. Sometimes I've seen one or two of their BP's try to borrow in the wood chips, but they don't get very far.

[BPsRule]

I've been to a couple pf Petcos that weren't doing a good job at all of taking care of their snakes. They were selling baby BPs for 80 bucks and the BPs had stuck sheds on them, huge log hides to hide in, and of course, they'd stick 2 or 3 in the same tank together which would add a little more to the stress I'm sure.

[speedy3]

i use a uth on 1 side and a light on the other for basking the uth is hooked to a thromstate with that set up its easy to control hum.My bp burrows like crazy, the sub strate will be neat and flat at night when I get up in the morning it looks like any army of moles on crack were in their. In the wild bp hunt in burrows, I dont know if they hunt crack addicts in the wild though!