Quote Originally Posted by Expensive hobby View Post
What do you use for calibration? What is your control RH to set it up?

And yes I see many people use those kinds of water bowls, along with newspaper or aspen bedding as substrate, obviously for ease of cleaning, but I don't mind the extra work to keep clean of it has the naturalistic look...

What I'm after is a good lookin enclosure that keeps her happy, heathy and comfortable.

My new enclosure will be light year ahead of this one don't worry
That water bowl isn't use for ease of cleaning or anything though. It's a good circle, doesn't take up a lot of space and snakes normally don't tip them over. The newspaper is normally because it's cheap and easy, Aspen is good bedding, not that it's expensive or ease of cleaning, I just like it. If you want to keep a naturalistic look then you can do so, I'm only giving you some tips to free up more room.

When you say RH, I'm assuming you mean relative humidity? If so then it's going to be different because I live in Louisiana where it's very humid to begin with and I don't keep any Balls at the moment right now. I've just returned to the hobby and I'm focusing on my favorite species of snake(the ones in my sig). I may get back into Balls later this year but if I do I'll only end up getting two or three and they're going to be in a rack setup due to space. When I used to keep my BP's, I would keep the humidity in the high 50's-mid 60's. It varied whether it was morning day or night. I used a thermometer/hydrometer that had two separate probes when I used to keep my ball pythons in a tank, it was a small company which I don't recall the brand, but I also had one that monitored the room temp/humidity as well, an accurite one.

In my post above, that hydrometer is an analog one that has a calibration screw on it that you can re-calibrate yearly. I've honestly never re-calibrated mine so I don't want to tell you how and give you the wrong advice, though I'm sure somebody else will chime in on this.