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Jack Dempsey
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Ok so i spent 100$ and made a beautiful plywood build cage for a ball python. Cage measures 3x2. Got my first ball pyhon from the Hamburg PA reptile show on the 15h. A little norm boy i named Bo. He ate his first ever frozen/thawed fuzzy this wed. Got him a humidty/temp gage at walmart, temp on heat mat, which the bottom of the cage is marker bored that i drilled holes over the heatpad that reads 97F. And 76 on cool side with the humidity at 49%.

Lil vid of his first feeding
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=/&gl=US#/watch?v=Q-8YkpvLexk
 
Your hot side temp is too high. I wouldn't have it over 92. Do you have it hooked up to a thermostat?? 76 is a bit low on the coolside, but I wouldn't worry as much there. A 3x2 cage is a bit large for a baby, but if he is eating, you'll be fine if you have hides on each side. Humidity is a bit low, so I would keep up misting to keep it around 60%. I'm assuming your cage is plywood with plexiglass or glass or acrylic? As long as you don't have a lot of holes, you'll be able to keep humidity up higher.
 
Just to double check, you've got the thermometer attached directly to the heat pad which is then underneath the plywood cage, right? If that's the case, then I wouldn't worry about the current temperature reading that you're getting because you lose a few degrees between the heat pad and the snake since there's plywood, substrate, etc. between the two. The best thing to do is watch the snake's behavior to see if your temperatures are acceptable (within reason). If it's spending a ton of time on the cool side, then you're going to need to make the warm side a bit cooler; same goes for if it's on the warm side a ton (except you'll want to bump up the cool side's temperature). You should be fine as long as you keep the temperature reading for the heat pad under 100°F provided that the snake's behavior doesn't indicate that the temperature needs lowered and that it can't directly touch the heat pad.

As for the humidity, give it a hide-box with some moist moss in it if you're unable to raise the overall humidity very much; that moist hide-box will help out a lot during shedding, too.
 
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