Alright I will do my best here.
I think you need to look at what has first priority in terms of your snakes health. The first and most important thing you can give your ball python is a proper temperature gradient. If you don't provide a proper thermal gradient your snake will die.
Of second most importance is security. If a ball python does not feel safe it will not eat. There are snakes that will starve themselves to death.
Next would be a clean source for healthy feeders. and so on and so on..
Now, 90% of the temperature and security problems I see are because people use these large naturalistic tank setup for ball pythons. If you can't get your temps right, that is a serious problem! That alone will jeopardize the life of your animal. If moving them to a tub setup fixes your temperature problem and you are willing to switch to tubs, then go for that.
Tubs fix the first and most important parts of husbandry that most everyone has problems with when they use glass tanks. I would say that every person who uses tanks for ball pythons has had some issue with husbandry at some point.
Now, plastic might some how be toxic to us and our pets. I honestly have not seen a shred of evidence to support that the plastic tubs I use have harmful effects on my snakes. I doubt anyone who uses plastic tubs for their animals have seen any kind of correlation between this harmful plastic and sickness in their animals. Why? Because tubs help keep temperature consistent, they keep humidity up, they make our animals feel safe.
In short, this supposed toxicity of plastic is not the first thing you should be worrying about when it comes to the well being of your animal. It is proper husbandry. Proper husbandry will always come first.
Now if they somehow prove that ALL plastic will kill my animals, then I will stop using it. The fact is, it doesn't harm them at all. It doesn't give off fumes, or make them sick in anyway. All of my snakes are 100% healthy because I moved them to tubs.
Now, I am not saying that you absolutely need to use tubs, tanks can work just fine! I just have a problem with you saying that tubs are HARMFUL to my animals which they obviously are not.
:/ Don't knock it until you try it.
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