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Originally Posted by GarterPython
I don't know. HMMMMMM. I hope someone else will get in on this! I think that bigger is better even with ball pythons. What is your reasoning behide thinking that ball pythons its not better?
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with ball pythons, they are very very shy, seclusive animals, they like tight, small places, and dont like any "confrontational" if you will, and BP will be happy when they are in a nice tight tub rather than a huge open tub...
my babies are in 6qt tubs, with no hides, since they are in a rack that is dark...
my adults are/will be in 41qt tubs, again no hides... i feel ALOT of breeders feel this way, and also keepers, just since BP are seclusive animals. and they dont like open spaces.
and again, i could be wrong, but i feel with BP smaller is better...
maybe with BRB, RTB, even maybe retic burms, or garters bigger is fine.
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I was told that they will be calmer in a smaller space as babies. Because even like a 10g tank would be too big and therefore stressful...
But since you say bigger is better, and assuming that humidity is not a problem for me (other than that I have a hard time keeping it below 60% for my milk snake...), could I just put him straight in the 20g? I would put plants and a lot of hides in to make it not seem big for him. I'm a little afraid that the humidity will be way too high in a tub. The humidity outside is pretty much always between 70% and 85%, so I've been having the opposity issues with humidity. o.O
I also have a 5(ish) gal breeder tank... but I don't really like it so I'm gonna be using it as a travel tank for Penelope.
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you could... ... humidity would be a pain to keep up in a big 20 gallon high, but with that much space, you could do a humid hide in the tank... OR instead of using the screen top...
take a piece of plexi glass and get it cut to fit on top of the tank, that will keep humidity in, just make sure to put holes in the plexi... this of course if you use a UTH, if you use a dome type lighting fixture, just cut the plexi to 2/3 the size of the tank, to leave room for the fixture to sit ... you dont want the light to sit over the plexi....
i would also reccommend to use cypress multch or eco earth, eco earth will just suck if you feed in tank, witch is fine, just use a plate to put the food on.
so a tank will be fine, jsut make a few mods to help with humidity.
also, some vines, and decor will help too.
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