BP baby is overly active?

[KMG]

It sounds like your snake is pretty new - a certain amount of activity is not unusual for an animal that's just a bit freaked out from being in a new place, regardless of how good or bad your husbandry is.

That said, it's still important to get your temps under control. One option is a ceramic heat emitter, which is a bulb that emits heat but no light. Ball pythons do benefit from having a day/night cycle, but it's not entirely clear that those red lights are actually invisible to them. Ceramic heat emitters last a long time and the normal light level in the room will do the job of telling your snake what time of day it is.

Another suggestion is a radiant heat panel. They're expensive, but they last. The benefit of a RHP is that it spreads the heat over a much wider area, so no part of it ever gets hot enough to damage the plastic of a tub. And because it spreads heat over a wider area, it's good at maintaining an even ambient temperature. It's also a more efficient way to heat the tub because the entire thing is inside the enclosure, and you (and/or your thermostat!!) control the temperature by reducing power to it. If you heat a tub with a lamp that you move closer or farther away, the lamp is on full blast all the time and most of the heat it produces is heating the air outside, not the inside of your tub.

If you have an 80-watt radiant heat panel inside the tub and it only needs to run at 50% power to heat your tub, it's only using 40 watts; or maybe you can heat your whole tub with a 40-watt panel in the first place. That's less than half the energy usage of a 100-watt bulb. Considering that this stuff basically needs to run 24/7, the difference in energy costs really does add up, even if you don't see it all at once. A back-of-the-envelope calculation is that a 100-watt bulb running 24/7 costs somewhere around $130/year. If a RHP cuts the wattage required to heat the tub in half (because less heat is wasted), it pays for itself easily considering that you might be using the same panel for a decade or two.

Have you used a RHP in a tub?