Enclosure Question (from a Newbie)

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First, welcome to BP.Net

I myself am not an expert, but ill do what i can to help answer your question.

As far as space in the wild as opposed to captivity, Snakes in the wild are forced to deal with the surrounding they are dealt, I believe its more additional security that you offer by starting small, which also helps in keeping stress down to allow the snake to feel more comfortable with eating and all.

With adding more stuff to the enclosure, you basically screw yourself. The more you add, the more you have to buy/maintain/clean ect. Your best bet if you want to start big so you dont have to continually upgrade, is to use a divider in the enclosure to make it smaller (one that is not clear, because that wont really give the desired effect.) Just make sure you set to heat/humidity to the sectioned off part and not to the whole enclosure, because the part with the snake will more then likely not get proper heat/humidity

Lastly, since your new to the site, and to ball pythons, if you havent already I recommend looking through the Ball Python Caresheet , it helped me alot, so I like to recommend it to everyone

EDIT: This is also my opinion/advice, that by no means makes it correct or something to live by, hopefully some of the more knowledgeable folks will chime in.