Quote Originally Posted by redshepherd View Post
The reason a big enclosure is not usually recommended for baby ball pythons, particularly with first time snake owners, is that it can be hard to get the "level of clutter" and hides right. Baby balls can be much more difficult than adults with getting them to eat, so there's much more room for error and thus baby ball refusing food.

But with the amount of research you seem to be doing, if you really want to start out with a T5/T11 and halving it, it could all go perfectly fine haha. If not, you should be willing to switch to a small tub setup and start from basics.

Main notes for a big setup for baby ball is to getting the right sized small hides with a small opening, put the hides everywhere and facing dark directions, put in branches and stuff for additional hiding, and stuffing a bunch of these big leafy vines in to fill in the "height". You could probably buy two of these: https://www.amazon.com/Flukers-Repta...s=reptile+vine

The leaves from those vines will provide top cover. All in all, make it so that you can't even find your baby ball if you're watching from outside. LOL
Excellent! Those are the details I needed to know so thank you so much for sharing! I'm hoping starting with the T5/11 will work out but if not I'll have the tub enclosure prepared as a plan b. Will probably ask for two Flexwatt's just in case, figure having an extra available as a backup/replacement would be a good idea regardless of the tub.

How small would you recommend the openings for hides to be? I'm not sure how fast a male baby bp will grow so would he ever get stuck? I'm hoping by then I'd notice baby has gotten bigger and I can just replace it with a bigger hide.

Also do you know how well suction cups stick to AP's walls?