How to add safe live plants to ball python enclosure

[hihit]

Spines on anything would bother me because I would think they could poke their eyeball on it. Like, I know they essentially have a scale over the eye, but I still just personally wouldn't put anything with spines in the enclosure. Also, aloe will likely start to look awkward without bright outdoor lighting, and will also grow huge and need to either be replaced or have to keep being cut down, or the main plant removed and leaving the "pups," which will also probably make it look awkward.

Just jumping on here as a plant dad to recommend against aloe for a different reason. Aloe is native to desert areas and does NOT tolerate moist soil very well. Same with a lot of succulents. Usually those types of plants need their soil to completely dry out before you re-water them, which wouldn't be happening if you planted them in the substrate of a ball python enclosure where you need to keep things relatively moist. They also have kinda shallow roots, which isn't great given the "bulldozery" nature of ball pythons.

Source: a poor fool who gave his aloe root rot and has accidentally knocked its pot over a few too many times.