Update on Mouth Rot Rescue

I know it has been a while since I posted about a rescue with mouth rot. She is doing much better after having been on almost a month of antibiotics and two vet visits. In case anyone was wondering how much this cost for me if they ever have a similar situation, it was $110 for the first visit, $80 for the checkup, and $20 for the antibiotics.
Anyways, I finally got her to eat her first meal and am now moving her into a 50 gallon enclosure. I have everything set up with an overhead light, interior ceramic bulb with an arcadia cage, and a moistenland automatic mister. The temps are about 95F on the warm side and about 75F on the cool side. Unfortunately the only tank I had on hand was a PVC Dubia 18x18x36. They’re very good enclosures in my opinion, but they ultimately suck at holding humidity. I currently have a cocohusk bedding and plan to maybe put something on top of it so that I can have a small pool of water beneath with the cocohusk. I also bought the mister to help. I know over misting is bad for most reptiles so it is set to mist once three days a week for 20 seconds (If that sounded confusing: It will mist for 20 seconds at 12pm every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.). Something to boost the humidity a little while helping with shed.
Anything else recommended that I should have? There is a heat mat for those wondering.

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Its really great to hear this rescue situation having a good outcome! Especially for a case of mouth rot.

I will say that this is waaay too high. The warmest ambient temp you want for a Ball Python shouldn’t exceed 86°F, but the cool end temp is good.

If you are using the mister keep a close eye on humidity, you’ll want to keep the range around 50-60%, also make sure you offer pretty deep bedding with a good drainage layer at least an inch deep if you are chosing to stick with the mister just to prevent any standing water from accumulating and saturating the substrate- which you’ll definitely want to avoid.

A good way to keep the humidity at the range it needs to be at is to incorporate and mix sphagnum moss into the substrate, or if you want to get really fancy you can find a nice tropical substrate mix from somewhere like the Bio Dude or Josh’s Frogs and keep the substrate on the drier side.

And since you are putting your BP in a 50gal I reccommend adding plenty of places for them to hide too.

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I will provide pictures of the enclosure soon, it definitely does have plenty of cover and hiding spots. Also I will clarify that the 95F on the warm side is the hot spot directly below the heat source. I will have to check, but I would assume the surrounding area is closer to 85F considering two and a half feet to the left is 75F. As for the substrate, I am using ReptiChip to prevent any mold growth from the mister to reduce chance of RI. I also do have a solid inch and a half to two inch layer of substrate to keep the top layer dry.

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I like Reptichip a lot! :pray:

Hot side and basking/hot spot are definitely two very different things.
I do also think 95 is still too hot even for the spot. I keep mine between 88-91 at most.

I glad that your noodle is doing better though!

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Awesome! Glad to hear she ate.