YES - Clean any item before you add it to your tank/enclosure. Many veterinary clinics, petstores and breeders use various form of mild chlorohexidine solutions to sanitize enclosures, enclosure decoration and other related items. I would recommend you get something like this as boiling every time you clean something may become slightly tedious.
Ball Pythons do not need any sort of light source. They will be just find without any lighting or just the natural lighting through windows and such. If you are using a light as a secondary heat source to raise your ambient temperatures I would use an Infrared Light on a dimmer to ensure that you do not get it too hot.
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