Your opinions on enclosures for a single baby BP

[JRLongton]

So he's eating well, behaving normally, and temps are steady. Changing over to a new enclosure now seems like a lot of work.

Why not keep your current set up and find a way to better manage humidity? There are lots of people who manage in a 20g long. Maybe a bigger water bowl? Or a humid hide?

Besides, in a house with 73F ambient, I think you're going to have a hard time managing ambient temps in a tub. I've experimented (I'd love a rack) but never got it to work unless the room's ambient temp was 77 or higher. You'd need a secondary heat source, which is probably the cause of your current humidity problem. I'd hate for you to go through all the trouble of setting up a new enclosure only find that you traded one issue for another.

If you want to spend the $, and it will cost a bit, you could get a PVC that your BP can live their whole life in.

From my experience, there is no such thing as too big an enclosure. I kept a hatchling in a full AP T8, and from day 1 the little bugger never had any issues eating, shedding, pooping, or anything. He's growing like a weed and doing great. The only issue is that it seems like a waste of space since he never moves and stays in his favorite hide all the time.

The trick is to clutter up the enclosure; lots and lots of hides and cover. I don't think it's so much that BPs don't like big areas, rather that they don't like open areas.

If you want to go to a PVC now you probably could. Humidity and temps are a breeze to maintain in PVCs. You'd just need to make sure there was very little open area. Hatchlings love those cardboard tubes from paper towel and toilet paper, a couple of those, four or five small hides, a water bowl that can double as a hide (mine all really love those) and you're well on your way.

I'm a contrarian and am the only person here who will advise against buying from AP. They take forever to deliver an expensive product that you pay up front for, and the sliding glass doors are awful, they rattle all the time. I'd point you towards Reptile Basics.

Right now I have a hatchling in a RB 2x3x1 and she's doing great in it. She has tons of hides and cover, I never know where she is. She eats great, and is coming along wonderful. I even changed her over from live to frozen thawed. It'll probably be her enclosure for life.

tl:dr; Keep your current set up and find a way to manage the humidity better while you shop for a larger enclosure.