Welcome to the snake addiction (and to the best forum!)...you should know that we're mostly "enablers" here. (evil laugh)
For sure, get your enclosure up & running about a week before your snake comes home, so if there's a problem, you can work it out ahead of time and without
stressing your new pet. Reading temperatures accurately is super important, & that means knowing the right way & place to read them also.
The hardest thing when you get a new snake is to not handle them at all until after they've had time to settle in and preferably fed 3 times easily for you...but
trust us, this is really for the best, & especially important with young (hatchling/neonate) snakes. Handling can disrupt their instincts to eat because the only thing
that normally picks them up in the wild is a predator. You want them focused on food, not fear.
Remember we were ALL new at one time...ask those questions, we don't bite & probably asked the same ones at one time.
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