Quote Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant View Post
I'll be honest a BP cage shouldn't need fans or a misting system. Plus the 160 heat panel is way more than necessary (the 40 is the appropriate size)

Honestly by the time you do all of this you are going to spend way more money than just purchasing a professionally made PVC cage like the Animal Plastics T8

http://www.apcages.com/

Simpler is better. This is how I house all of my ball Pythons



These cages hold in heat and humidity very well. You can use under tank heaters, radiant heat panels or both.

If you really want to make things complicated here is a good misting system. RO water isn't necessary but will increase the life of the misting heads.

http://www.mistking.com/

Ball pythons are nocturnal terrestrial snakes. This means that they are only active at night and they don't climb. The most important aspect of a BP cage is providing the correct temperature gradient (90 degrees on the hot side and 80 degrees on the cool side with 40%-60% humidity) and security. Nothing else is really important.
I don't care about the money part of it to me its the fun of doing it and learning as I build it the cage alone will only be 65.00 or so to build. I order acrylic in 4x8 sheets so its not going to be very much. I all ready have most of the blue acrylic. The room the room the BP will be in is at 65 all year long so I rather have a heater that will keep up with the cold. I was thinking about doing 2 40 heaters. So are you thinking a area sunk with bark for her to dig in along with a cave or something using heat tape to keep it warm?