Our little BP just had her first shed with us and it came off in two pieces. We've been having a hard time maintaining humidity levels for a couple of reasons. Our level has been pretty solidly 55%. The first, is that we keep her in a glass tank and despite all the misting in the world, the humidity disperses pretty quickly. The tank has two vents, and I have covered the entire screen lid with aluminium foil with a card-board core. She still has a pretty sizeable vent to allow airflow, but before we covered the top we were lucky to get 40% humidity. The second problem is that I have horrific allergies throughout the summer (we're talking prescription level drugs, an epi-pen etc) and therefore keep a de-humidifier running in the apartment itself.

She is currently on aspen, but is there another type of bedding we could try that will work better for humidity levels? The level may sort itself out once I can turn off the de-humidifier, but that won't be for another month.