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    Leave himid hides in cage all the time?

    As the title says, do any of you guys leave the humid hides in your bp cage all the time just to add to the overall humidity and/or allow the snake to just sit in a nice humid place when they want? Been messing with this new 30 gallon I got and so far, I can only get the humidity to around 40-45%. I haven't done the Walmart burlap cinch bag stuffed with moss and hung from the corner yet but I'm just wondering if leaving a moss hide on the warm side and maybe on the cool side as well as dry hides on cool and warm sides as well for a total of 4 hides would work well as well like I said raising humidity. Dot is a baby now so I need to keep more hides in the 30 gallon anyways so just a thought. Thanks.

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    Wont hurt anything. When I had my 55 set up I had 2 moss hides all the time.

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    Re: Leave himid hides in cage all the time?

    Yeah no problem, but it may be in the snakes best interest to have at least one normal hide also.

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    I keep moss in both of my BPs hides at all times. I only keep them moist during a shed. Other times I make moist and allow to dry out before making damp again. Works fine. I don't even worry about cage humidity now. Using the moss in the hides as I do gives perfect sheds without any fuss.

    I do have live plants so I water them every so often so you misting once a day would equal about the same.
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    Yeah figure ill just do 1 humid and 1 dry hide on the cool side and 1 humid and 1 dry on the warm side since like I said, Dot is just a baby still so all those hides should help with feeling secure as well although I did catch her last night crawling all over the cage checking everything out and sitting on top of her warm hide now and standing straight up to see if she could touch the top of cage lol. I think she is also hungry as she seems to come out at night when shes hungry or she sits with just her head poking out of her hide like shes waiting for a rat to wander by.

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    Yes - I leave 1 humid hide in all the time. It's interesting to see them go between dry and humid hides. And our little mojave has shed for us 3 times, and every time has been inside his humid hide. And he spent more time in there the couple of days leading up to his shed. Smart little guy.
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