Carpet pythons

[Reinz]

My Diamond/Jungle girl will be arriving tomorrow morning by 10:30am!

Just about everything is ready to go. I put down the aspen shavings, filled the water bowl, added more hides and cork bark, hung black cloth covering two sides of the cage for a more secure feeling, set up some lights, and have been testing temperatures.

Belly heat is about 88F which seems good (it's on a thermostat), but I need to find a smaller watt bulb for a basking spot. The 40W is giving me around 96F so I'm going to pick up a 25W and maybe a 15W or whatever they have to try out. There's also an LED bulb that I can use to give white light without heat (it's a 2-bulb fixture). I could also raise the light higher as a temp fix but that won't look as good.

I also found two timers I can use to program a day/night cycle, they're just ON/OFF but better than nothing.

Frozen mice will be here on Wednesday, I wanted to give her some time to settle in before attempting a feeding anyway.

Also - gotta work on a name. So far I've been looking at some star themed options (to call out the diamond look) or female characters from mythology, Tolkien, etc...

Great planning and prep there DB.