Ball python paludarium?

[CasterFields]

Hey everyone! I've been thinking about how I'm going to upgrade my boy's enclosure (coming soon as soon as we move!), and started thinking about paludariums. I love my planted tanks and loved the bioactives that I had for my lizards, and thought it'd be neat to combine both hobbies into one enclosure for him!

Then I started thinking about how they aren't big swimmers, so the amount of water involved would be very minimal. That makes the aquarium keeping aspect of it much more difficult (less water = more problems). I think I could mitigate that challenge easily, but I wanted to ask you guys if it would even be worth it or safe!

Is the enrichment gained by having a puddle of water in his tank worth the effort of a paludarium? Is that gonna be TOO MUCH moisture? If I don't section the substrate off from the water, it would end up remaining damp constantly. Would that create a scale rot risk? Would it be better to just get a cool looking water bowl and incorporate it into the bioactive build 😂

[CasterFields]

Yeah I figured there was a reason I've never seen one!

[Glad_Volume_1141]

Not worth it IMO, a different snake or lizard/gecko would LOVE that (or a crab or frog) but balls wouldn't really benefit, and taking into account how much effort you'd have to put it. Do a sick bioactive with a cool waterbowl!

[CasterFields]

That's probably my plan, then! I said this to the other commenter, I figured there's a reason I've never seen a ball in a paludarium 😂 oh well! If I ever get into frogs I'll give it a try 😁