Quote Originally Posted by Coluber42 View Post
The snake won't appreciably affect the humidity in the cage. A water bowl will help the humidity, and your snake needs one to drink from anyway. If your tap water is safe for you to drink, it's safe for your snake to drink and it's safe to spray with. The reason misting systems call for filtered or RO water or whatever is because minerals from the water would otherwise clog up the nozzles over time.

What you have to do for humidity will be a bit of a moving target in New England over the course of the year. Ultimately a larger* enclosure with deeper substrate will help keep conditions a little more stable (this means heat has to come from above; you can't use a UTH with deep substrate). You might as well be thinking about what enclosure you will ultimately upgrade to, because your snake will outgrow a 10gal tank pretty quickly.

*Ball pythons really will make use of a larger enclosure, but it has to have lots of hiding places and cover. A 55gal tank with one hide and a water bowl isn't it.
That makes perfect sense. It seems like every time I read one thing another one gives me different information so i've been trying to take both sides and pull out the info that makes sense. The 10 gal is really a temporary enclosure. I have a 20 gal aquarium in the basement that we don't use because it leaks which is a problem for an aquarium not a terrarium. But I know glass makes it harder to control humidity as well so i've been looking into tma 40gal thats made of plastic. If our python grows out of the 10gal quicker than I expect than we may be using the 20gal aquarium until I find a more suitable enclosure. Thanks for the response!

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