hello,

[blue roses]

My name is Rose, and I just own 2 snakes. My first was an extreme reverse okeetee, corn, and my 2nd is a spinner blast ball python. I love my corn, gracie, but I fell in love with my ball, nugget, at first sight. These two are the newest of mypets. They join 2 dogs, 3 cats, 1 blue-fromt amazon parrot, as our indoor group. Outdoors we have 10 chickens and a muscovey duck. The care takers and human companions to my mini zoo are my husband, daughter, and myself.

These are my first snakes, andi am still learning, but i guess when it comes to your pets and animals in general you never stop learning.

Nugget is housed in an exo terra glass tank, a exo terra desert uth, with a herpstat thermostat. His bedding is cypress mulch, and he has 3 hides and silk plants to block the side glass, the rock background blocks window light. His water bowl is a heavy ceramic rock type and his temps are 88-92 on hot side and 78-82 on cool side with amiant temps of 75-80. I am having a problem keeping the humidity level over 40 percent so i ordered a fogger today. I also covered the tank at the ends. it helped but not enough. He eats small ft rat pups and is an egar eater. Any advice anyone has to offer will be appreiciated. What i learned, i learned by lurking here, So thanks for just being there.

[Mike41793]

I'm not familiar with exo tanks but if they have a screen top, put a damp bath towel or saran wrap over like 2/3 of it to restrict the airflow and hold in the humidity better. A larger water dish could help and add sphagnum Moss in there that you can mist down which will hold in the humidity as well. Hope that helps give you some ideas. Welcome to the forums, sounds like you're doing a great job so far. Humidity isn't something to stress out over too much unless your ball is having trouble shedding bc it's so low.

[blue roses]

He has not shed yet with me, but his breeder said he sheds well, and in one piece. Just to be sure i blocked half of the top with some plaxiglass, and have ordered a zoomed repti fog fogger. I think this will help. The humidity is now at 40 percent, I am shooting for between 60- 70 percent. He is such a sweet little guy, and doesn't seem to mind being handled. When i put him back in his viv, he watches till i close his doors. My tank has front closing doors.