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[NoShirt]

Hi im No Shirt. Im new to the form today. Ty for having me a reading my post. I own a dark pastel ball python and a pacific gopher snake. I have a couple questions id like to ask.

1. Is there an iphone app for this site?

2. My B/p is undergoing a little experiment. Shes normally in a plastic container to hold the humidity and heat better and the gopher is in a 40 gal 36x18x16. In the last weekI switched cages on them to see if my bp would utilize the bigger cage more than the gopher does because all he does it hide and never climbs the branches. The bp seems to like the bigger cage and she does utilize more of the cage. She chills on the branches and burrows in the aspen. The gopher never did. And he doesnt seem to care about being in the plastic tub thing i got.

The hot spot is at 90 the ambient air temp on one side is 80 and is kept that way with a red light and a heat matt mounted under the tank. The cool side sits at 70-75f during the day and around 65 at night because i cant keep that side that warm due to it being glass. It has aspen as bedding to big sticks 4 hides one on cold side 2 on hot side and one in the middle. And a water bowl.

now my problem is she likes to chill on the cold side in the substrate a lot when its at 65f and i know she needs to be in the 80s at leased. She deff can chill in the substrate on the warm side where its 85f at night but she chooses not to. I dont get it.

3- is it unhealthy for her to sit where its 65f or do u think she knows whats best for her self.

4- now if i put a heat lamp on that side to hold the ambient air temp at 80 all day and 80 on the warm side with a hot spot of 90f... She burrows in the middle where its 70 on the bottow glass like shes trying to find her 65 Degree spot. Lol i dont get it. Is she telling me she likes her cold side the way it is?

And just to put this out there because everyone debates the whole "will my bp sit on the branches" mine sure does even if i dont have the light over head. She just likes the branches lol. But that still does not mean bps are arboreal in any way.

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[Neal]

Welcome to the forums and I'll touch on your post briefly.

May I ask where you're from so I get an idea of the general temp.

Next several things you can do to up your heat besides using the over head lights. On my bigger tank I keep an UTH on both sides of the tank cool and warm, so that way the temperatures are set where I like them at.

Ideally you want to cool side to be around 82-83 and the warm side to be 88-90.

Have you ever considered getting a rack or maybe something to help raise your ambient room temperature?

[BulkMice]

Hello there!

[NoShirt]

I live in ct. Ty for the advice 2. Shes norm in a tub but this is just a little experament. The tub keeps the ambiant at 80 and hot spot at 90 and humitity at 50-60 so it is perfect for her. And im going to get a rack once i get the mates for these 2

Im just curious why she likes it colder

but the 40 breeder isnt practical for her because i have to spray it everyday because i have a heat lamp on both sides so her ambiant is at 80 and hot spot at 90. So even the towel trick in the middle isnt enough to keep the humdity up far enough. Every day i come home to it at 40%. But just trying something new ya know.

I was thinking about cutting a pice of plexyglass to sit on top of the screen so it holds the humidity and heat better but i dont know if it would work anyway because i still would need lamps on top and the lamps always take the humidity right out of the air. Plus i would have to cut holes for the lamps so they can sit on top without melting the plexy.

But back to my main question why do u think my ball python always chills in the coldest spot in the tank she can find. She likes the 65-75 range. It stumps me