I'm glad I stumbled on this website before I got my BP, even though I had a pretty good idea about temperature/humidity requirements before hand.

It's sad that even the employee at the local "reptile store" (they only sell reptiles) told me that I don't really need a thermostat, and humidity isn't really a big deal if I just have one ball python that is a cheaper morph. I didn't even ask him if the UTH I bought from them could burn my snake because I knew I would get some ridiculous answer.

I thought I was unprepared with a UTH, overhead lamp, tinfoiled lid, dimmer on the UTH as a temp until my Herpstat arrived, a digital hygrometer and two digital thermometers until I sourced an accurite in Canada.