Thanks...Cee Cee and Seeley are always posing like that...I swear they do it on purpose for the camera! An option for your lamp fixture might be a terrarium hood...Zoo Med makes one..the Naturalistic Terrarium Hood...that has two sockets so that you can put a daytime bulb and a nighttime bulb in it Zoo Med Naturalistic Terrarium Hood at PETCO I am not sure about different brands for reptibark...I just bought what they had at my pet store. I didn't like it though so I switched back to carefresh...my snakes like it better for burrowing, and I feel it's safer. With under heat mats you have to make sure the tank is propped up on the bottom so that the heat can escape from underneath, and you have to make sure you have plenty of substrate over the mat...but not too much. About 2 inches is good. You may want to wait until the snake is a little bigger if you are getting a baby...I worry about snakes burrowing down and getting burned on the hot glass with heat mats...but that is my opinion...others use them and do not agree. I don't use one with my baby albino...I worry too much about him burrowing and getting burned.