My personal opinion. If bathing was so stressful for them they would bolt. None of mine do. Walking up and putting your face in view to look at them should stress them. Cleaning and changing water also. Or even just regular handling. Life is full of stress. All we can do is minimize it. Not avoid it.
I don’t know how other keepers keep their animals clean but this has worked for me for decades. My animals eat, shed, void and do all the things snakes do without issues. Skin, parasite and respiratory issues have never been a problem except for new residents and animals that have been rescued. When I open their enclosures to do anything they come to the front to find out what is happening. Even shy or nervous species.
If you really want to know exactly what a ball or any species needs, I lwould suggest a study of the environment from which they came. Summer highs and lows, winter highs and lows, rainfall, humidity levels and photoperiod. I include microclimate and even vegetation coverage. I have done this for every species I have kept, do keep. Nature, I find, has better info than people on reddit who model everything on someone else’s experience. Of course, I may be totally wrong.
Its not just me saying this, everyone here is saying 80% all the time is too much (except during shedding but even then I only aim for 75), they all cant be giving bad advice. Many of them are experienced breeders of many years.
Yeah this why I’m going to stick with morphmarket advice more than reddit because I’m starting to distrust the mods who giving the advice there and I noticed my logs and his climbing frame thing is starting to have mold plus the shitty second hand tank I have luckily my BP doesn’t have a respiratory infection so I will probably just spray him less instead of every few hours like have been
This is really good information thank you so much
Wow. I don’t know think any of this is correct.
Bathing can cause some degree of stress for some snakes. But snakes who gets baths regularly seem to become habituated to it, and some snakes seem to love the water. And there are definitely situations where you need to bathe your snake (stuck shed, mites, dehydration, disinfecting injuries, etc.).
I don’t know where this notion of boycotting UTHs is coming from, but heat mats are just fine to use. Ball pythons do great with belly heat (though there’s nothing wrong with overhead heat, fine to use that if it’s your preference). And they definitely do not need 80% humidity, that’s a recipe for mold, fungus, and respiratory infections.
I get the sense that Reddit is mainly populated by people who have been keeping one or two ball pythons for a few months and think this makes them experts who have earned the right to demean anyone who doesn’t keep their snakes exactly like they do. Which is silly, and not how the real world works. But I understand that it can be confusing to find good, accurate information, and that it’s frustrating to be finding contradictory information. I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that Reddit is not the best place to find accurate and helpful husbandry advice.
Glad to help.
What turned me of reddit was a hybrid discussion. I am neutral. The same thing that kept being said- I can’t/won’t know how to set it up.
Really?
Try a holistic approach and stop listening to people whose only knowledge is a care sheet or pet store employees.
Totally false. Imho reddit is not the place to go to for reliable reptile info/advice……
That’s really good to know im going to stay away from reddit now on and come here for advice
Now that’s one very smart move! 
