Thank you for the tips!Originally Posted by Lord Sorril
Rather than fiddling with the humidity of the entire enclosure you could create a humid hide: Take a plastic container or box and cut a hole and then add moist substrate inside. Try to place it in the 'ideal temp' zone of your enclosure (80-82F). Ball pythons prefer snug hides--usually you start out small and then increase the size of the hides in relation to the size of the snake.
Also, it looks cool, but, make sure that skull decoration doesn't have sculpted closed loops that are small enough to catch your snake-if it does--modify it, or remove the decoration. We have seen many photos of ball pythons with their bodies trapped in various fish tank decorations...
That decoration is meant to be used as a hide for reptiles (at least that's how it's being marketed).
I already filed down some of the edges as they were a bit too sharp for my taste.
Would sphagnum moss be an appropriate substrate for the box?
Also, wouldn't the snake prefer this humid hide over anything else?(Like his other hides)
I'm afraid that it may cause some scale rot if it stays too much in there
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