Told you I was scared as to what I'd see. You should've read over some more care sheets before getting the snake. You don't use sand as bedding. Take that out and use either newspaper, paper towels, aspen, etc... Care sheets go into detail as to what you should use. Secondly, you need two hides that are exactly the same on each side of the tank. You need to have gauges for temps to measure the hot side, cold side and ambient air temps as well as one to measure humidity ESPECIALLY IF IT'S ABOUT TO SHED. How can we tell you what will help with the humidity if you don't even know what the humidity level is?

Something that bugged me though was you said that for heat he uses the tree stump...Is that some sort of equipment that gives off heat like a heated rock?