First off, I'd like to thank all members of this site! This weekend I've found not only all the information that I've been looking ALL over for, but I've found so much more that will help me down the road, all within a search and/or click of a button.

I'm new to snake keeping, but not reptile keeping. Honestly, this may sound foolish, but I use to be quite afraid of snakes until I asked myself one day, why a snake? That's when I realized it's just a creature like any other and how you ultimately treat it will end up in it's response to you. I guess I've feared the bite, but I've taken bigger bites from larger breeds of dogs, birds, other reptiles. The worst bite I've ever had, I would chalk up to a cat, the biting and scratching they do is crazy (to me at least).

Anyway to the point, after much research the first thing I did was build an enclosure, which is a 32 QT tub, I created to hides from a set of 3 smaller plastic bowls from the dollar store, using the third as a water dish.

I invested in an under the tank heater (since my old lighting isn't really applicable here) and the infamous thermostat. I'm using newspaper as the substrate. Of course I have the temp and humidity gauges.

Everything is set up for my c.b. baby ball python which should on the way and here NLT Friday. I'm looking forward to the challenges and rewarding experiences that come with ball python husbandry.

I would again like to thank everyone for the vast amounts of information on this site. I'm still finding all kinds of good information!