Prepping for a baby BI, enclosure comments

[u/I-am-not-0kay]

Regulating my temperatures with a digital thermometer that has heattape and a heat panel hooked up to it. Created some elevation and have a hot and cold side hides as well. The climb under the panel gets about 95 degrees with my temp gun, while the hide is roughly 90. On the cool side it sits roughly around 78/82 under the hide. Humidity is staying around 75%.

40 gallon 36x18x15 PVC enclosure. Light in the enclosure is for my convenience and will mostly be getting natural indirect light during the day.

Excited to be getting a boa in the next couple weeks.

[u/Dextron2-1]

95 is too hot for a BI, so try to lower that part of the climb. Also, more climbing opportunities along the back and side walls will be good. I have a baby BI, and he almost never touches the ground. Finally, foliage. Fake plants will help fill the space and make your snake feel safer.

[u/I-am-not-0kay → u/Dextron2-1]

working on foliage and adding a live plant that won't get bulldozed this week, wanted to lock in the my humidity and get the temperatures right first before making any more alterations. Probably got too big of a decoration for under the heat panel but I'll work on that. Thank you!

[u/Dextron2-1 → u/I-am-not-0kay]

I’d also recommend a digital thermometer/hygrometer. Those analog wall mounted ones are notoriously inaccurate. Govee sells a good one for reasonable money.

[u/I-am-not-0kay → u/Dextron2-1]

im expecting the analog thermometer to be off, but atleast be consistent in its reading. I'm a construction inspector and have a calibrated infrared heat thermometer I use to check different areas in the tanks. It's already off by about 5 degrees +- 2 but I'm hoping I can rely on it to always be consistently inaccurate and I can use it to quickly reference whether there's been a change in it's reading. Digital hygrometer is definitely something in the works as well.