Well that's good to hear! spent a lot of money thinking we where doing every thing right... Shes a tuff girl previous owners didnt even moniter her heat she lived in her rock I'm glad I found this forum it will be nice to be able to ask questions and get good feedback! Thank you for all this info won't be listening to the pet store as much!
One thing to note is when a ball python is happy it will be hiding. By nature it will be in it's hide most of the time. More then likely it is now out and about but when it is happy with it's environment you won't see it often.