New to the BP world!

[RKubica32]

I recently "rescued" my BP from percolating and was looking for some advice/opinions on my currenteam habitat setup. In an hour or so I will be able to post a picture. I currently have a 30x12x12 tank with a day and night light as well as a hot side hide and cool side hide. My humidity is hovering around 40% which I think I need to increase. I have 2 digital thermometer's one on each side with hot side sitting at 80 and cool sitting around 75. I will try to post a pic once home. Thanks!

[Albert Clark]

Welcome. Ball pythons really don't need day lights. How are you heating the enclosure?

[Swiftstar]

Hey, id recommend using a heatmat under the tank... If using a screen top cover it up with a towel (not near the over tank heater) This will help maintain humidity alongside a better substrate such as eco earth or repti bark, a large waterbowl over or underneath a heater will also help with raising humidity. Ensure you have two identical hides on each side of the tank so the bp can thermoregulate and make sure all heat sources are attached to a thermostat at the correct temperature aiming for a approx a 90f hotspot. The cool side ain't to bad at 75 due to it being winter.. Mines probably around that atm but my hot side is high 80s low 90s... Need any more help/info happy to answer..

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[Swiftstar]

And apologies you probably already knew that information, was just writing in my own head

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[cletus]

Welcome to the forum!

[RKubica32]

Well the forum won't let me attach a picture to my post but the day light is actually a heat lamp. Right now I'm getting 84.9 on the hot side and 72.3 on the cool side. For bedding I'm using aspen shavings as I used then in the past with my corn snake. (I do not intend on feeding it in the enclosure with the shavings ad she could accidentally gobble those up). The two hides arnt identicalike but I do have a large water bowline on the hot side and a smaller one on the cool side. Humidity is at 30% so I may throw some moss I'm too get that up.