Humidity reading inaccurate??

[ShelKel]

Hey guys, I'm new here. I've had a ball python for about two weeks now. I bought a thermostat and hygrometer, and the humidity was always reading that it was wayyy too low. I noticed on my thermostat in my house, that the humidity inside is always anywhere between 50-60%. Is there a chance that my hygrometer is off? I'm not entirely sure what to do. I've been misting his tank about three times a day to get the humidity up, covered part of his tank, increasing water dish size, nothing works. Can anyone give me some advice? He is currently in a glass aquarium, but I purchased an Animal Plastics tank last week and am just waiting for it to be shipped out. You can see in the picture that the hygrometer is reading 15% while the house thermostat is reading 59%.

[Dezoruba]

Go get a $12 acurite from Walmart to know for sure. But I doubt your house humidity is really 60% unless you have humidifiers going...

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[Morjean]

Hi!
Sounds like your hygrometer is inaccurate! Try the salt test to test it out!

Works like a charm, follow the instructions closely:
http://www.stevejenkins.com/blog/201...the-salt-test/

If, after doing that, your hygrometer doesn't read 75% then you'll know for sure that it's off!

[Morjean]

Go get a $12 acurite from Walmart to know for sure. But I doubt your house humidity is really 60% unless you have humidifiers going...

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I wouldn't doubt the 60% all too much, who knows where OP lives! I live in West Germany, and I have a usual humidity of 70% in my house, no humidifiers, nothing ― Just the way climate is over here Maybe they live somewhere humid too

(Sorry for the double post, I didn't know i could edit a quote into an old post)

[ShelKel]

Thanks so much for the help!! I'm definitely going to try that little test tonight on what I have! If it fails, I'll get a new one, because I'm not entirely sure if I can calibrate the one I have. The thermostat I have in my house is very new, and that's the only reason why I wanted to lean towards that rather than the hygrometer. I live in North Carolina, so it is humid here. Not as humid as Florida, probably, but a lot more humid than Arizona. I'll be checking out the acurite from Walmart. Again, thanks for the quick replies!!! 😊

[dkatz4]

love my acurite, best $12 i ever spent. I was using (gasp) an analog dial - you know the kind -they sell with the similarly useless thermometer at the big box pet stores. It was reading 40% humidly so i started misting and putting wet towels under the hot spot, etc. By the time i got it close to 60% i had condensation pooling all over the place - then my acurite arrives and, big surprise, the humidity was off the scale, turns out i was fine without the misting etc, but the stupid POS hydrometer was reading about 30 points low.