Oh wow I completely forgot about quarantine. :/ I feel really stupid now. I did it with my bee but didn't even think about it with the pastave. I can't, in any way, keep them in totally separate rooms though (until Patrick returns from deployment and move into our house, they're staying at my parents' house) because my mother *refuses* to allow any snakes outside the perimeter of my bedroom, unfortunately. the best I can do is keep them at separate ends of the room and wash hands between handlings.

Thank you for the compliments and advice. I set up my new housing system today:



(no worries; the pastave is in a separate tank, but I wanted to put the tub up still)

My normal is in the 41qt seen up top, bumblebee to the right, and the pastave will be moved into that tub to the left on the second shelf. We now have heat tape, and a herpstat, rather than a lamp on one tank, a UTH on the other, and rather crappy hydrometer. I'm really happy with this set up. And you guys were right- humidity is NO longer an issue! In fact, I'm having to put in more holes for Rosca because her tub read at 76 humidity. ReptiBark at the bottom- I was going to do cypress mulch but I had that already so I'll go through it first. Heat tape, since they had to be in same length / width to share a thermostat, are both 12" by 12"- for Rosca, this covers exactly one third of her tub; the little ones, being divided and centered over the tape, it also takes up 1/3- I was careful about measuring. I wanted to do 4" strips and run them down the length of the shelves but I had no idea how that worked out.. Like with rack systems, I don't understand how they come with 4" of heat tape, but 1/3 of a large tub is suppose to be covered... Is it heated length wise? It just doesn't seem like that'd be optimal. I feel like I'm missing something in how that works.
Regardless, until the man and I get our rack system this winter / early spring, I think this will do. It's much more efficient than my previous set up.

Oh, and herpstat question: it has an alarm that goes off if the temp gets too high, but will it shut itself off? I read the instructions but couldn't find anything. I keep the herpstat at 96, which keeps the interior of the tubs at 92 on hotspots (checked with a tempgun).


So! Am I missing anything?

Oh, yeah, and that red thing on top of the smaller tubs is a Afghan scarf Pat got me; I figured I should cover the tops of the the smaller tubs since they were clear and Rosca's is not. I took her hides out (I had them in there initially and since she stays in one or the other it was fine, but eh, I decided to take them out- she settled eventually) but left hides in the smaller ones since it seemed too open for the babies.