Getting a ball python tomorrow!! Advice??

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Are you just playing with semantics here? Dictionary definition of Replicate: make an exact copy of; reproduce. To replicate the wild is to create it elsewhere.

And I don't mean to be rude but a man made burrow in a deep layer of substrate would be more accurate than that. Maybe with a top soil mix of sand or shredded cocohusk. With a glass tank there should be more than enough room for that amount of substrate.

Or do what many people do with monitor lizards; put 2-3' of dirt as a substrate so they can actually live in burrows. But cleaning and checking the well-being of your pet becomes EXTREMELY difficult at this point.


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