Quote Originally Posted by Annarose15 View Post
Either way works, but your ball python is nocturnal. Which means, the sun warms the ground, and then the ground warms your BP when it comes out at night. So, actually, heat does radiate from the ground in the wild.
Hmmm... why the eyes rolling? The major type of heat given off by a substrate being in the sun all day is conductive heat, not radiant heat. I normally wouldn't argue semantics, but meh.

Serpant Merchant, thanks for your info! I wasn't tracking the dip in humidity from a bulb... good to have a heads-up there. I figure some moss in the hidespots would help with maintaining humidity, in addition to a fabric covering over the lid. It was more or less what I used with my RTB and she never had an incomplete shed. Not once.

Andrew 21, I don't yet but it's on the short list! Do you have any favorites, or all they all kind of the same?