Quote Originally Posted by i_love_my_hardwin View Post
k. 20 gallon terrarium. aspen beeding. rock water bowl. half log hide thingy. red heating bulb, with heating pad stuck to the side of the glass ( not underneath.) um....im sorry i dont know real names for everything. im so new. but i love my snake and want to know the best ways to take care of hiim. you know those :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r:ty little stick on thermometers? i have one on the back glass. so its about 90 hot end 82 cool end. he just ate for the first time today. im excited. i dont know a lot about snakes but im not ignorant either. i know enough to know that im doing ok takiing care of him but i want to be better than ok. that is not good enough for him. i wnat better. ya know?
Welcome! Couple things stick out....

1. Get a better thermometer Acurite makes a good one that has a probe so you can monitor the hot side with the probe and the unit itself will monitor the other side for ambient. It will also show you your humidity which you should know and keep around 55% (everyone will say differently but that seems to be the census).

2. How are you regulating your hot side? You should have the UTH (Under Tank Heater) on at the least a rheostat but a thermostat would be better.

3. Not really an issue (personally) but most people recommend two identical hides on either side of the tank and not those half log things (doesn't make them feel secure enough i guess).

I'm sure you will get a bunch more posts adding stuff hopefully you will be able to piece them all together and make sense of it all

Also, rule #1 of these boards is PICS PICS and more PICS!