Quote Originally Posted by Tinyballs View Post
Give him an entire day to get situated, do not hold him, do not bother him. If you can, try to even stay out of the room he's in. Then, try again tomorrow. Repeat if he does not feed.

Balls are notorious for going off of feed randomly or from stress induced factors.


"Also, if your enclosure has a screen top, you may have difficulty holding in humidity. If that is the case, you should consider covering part of the top with plexiglass"

+1. I can't say how much I agree with this. Humidity is a nightmare to keep in glass tanks, and you're most likely going to need a piece of plexi covering the top if it's a screen. Cut a circular opening for your heat lamps and a couple 3/4" holes on the ends. You need less ventilation than you think.

Artgecko gave great advice, I would also use only the ceramic heat emitter. The red bulbs are a waste of time, additionally ball pythons spend most of their time in termite borrows so they are not a species that needs ANY additional lighting to begin with. The daylight from a small window is sufficient.


How big of a tank is he in ? 20 gallon long?
20 gallon long. Also, I feel like the temperature from the UTH on the thermostat is not right... maybe I have too much aspen bedding but when I touch t he spot he sleeps (under his hide) it doesn't feel like 92

thing is, he tried to take the mouse 3 times but missed the mouse... OR, he was trying to get me and not the mouse... lol. I don't know. It seemed like after he missed it 3 times he said "to hell with this" n said forget about it!

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if I lay a thermometer under his hide, it shows 80 degrees. But the thermostat is saying its 90

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Think was a mistake mounting the thermostat sensor between the UTH and tank.