Quote Originally Posted by xdeus
Welcome to the forum! I went ahead and moved your thread to a more appropriate location.

Anyway, 80% humidity is much too high for a Ball. 40-50% is fine, although you may want to bump it during shed if you notice stuck sheds. 80-90F gradient is fine as well, and don't worry about where your Ball likes to spend his time. As long as you have the same type of hide on the warm and cool side, your Ball will figure out where to go. And as far as your Ball spending most of his time in his hide... that's what they do. Stressed Balls will spend a lot of time moving around the cage during the day and acting restless. The best indication of a happy Ball is one that will consistently eat for you. Just make sure you don't feed him too much. Rat pups or mouse hoppers should do for now, but they won't need more than a full size mouse or weaned rat their whole life.

Good luck!

that makes alot of sense, when I first got him he didnt have any full hide spots, he could only go under a partial log, and he would move around alot. during the day he would sleep but at night he was all over the place. climbing in and out of hise water dish, climbing on the logs, etc etc. So it makes sense the poor thing was freaked out and was just trying to find a place to hide, which at the time I didnt have one provided for him. I work at a cable company so I got to do ALOT of reading on TONS of sites about BP's and thats when I found out ALL of them stressed having hidding spots, so I went out to the pet store and grabbed a couple for him. I'm just a new owner and when I first got him he was all over the place, and now, he never moves, so I didn't know how to interpurpt that. And 40-50% humidity is alright? i read in the 80's is where you wanna be....my buddy was laughing me, the one with the store, cause he just an emerald green tree boa in and it has to have 100% humidity, lol.


And thanks for moving to the correct section for me.