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right now he doesn't have any hiding place
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You should try making/buying him a hiding place. Especialy that he is new he will want a place to feel secure. W/o a proper retreat your snake might become stressed and the uncommon in redtails might happen -- they wont eat!..You can make a homeade hide out of anytype of small container box with a little whole cut in so he can enter.
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i saw on the thread link something bout misting. should i do this? and how?
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Misting helps provide the humidty in the cage so that the snake feels more like in its natural habitat. For a RTB you can provide a humidty level at 50-70%.. You can maintain these levels with a humidty gage which you can buy at any petstore which will tell you the amount of humidity in your enclosure. Since you are using a mesh top it will be hard to maintain humidity w/o it escaping. Place cloth towels on half of the enclosure so the humidty stays inside the cage.
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there's a heating pad underneath
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Since you are using paper towels, I reccomend switchin to repti carpet/lizard liner/astro turf -- some type of durable substrate. From my own expirence I have noticed snakes like to crawl under the paper towels, and since they have no neurological feeling they wont feel a burn. Direct contact with a heating pad can be pretty bad. Another option is that you can go to home depot and buy a huge bag of cypress mulch for about $2.00 - $3.00 and layer it over the paper towels. A heating pad under the cypress mulch will make the mulch nice and warm for perfect belly heat (which is important because w/o proper belly heat your snake risks regurgitation)
