New BP! I need help!

I just got a baby girl ghost! She's really cute, but I'm having problems with humidity...

I am using coconut husk substrate and I think that it's the cause of my high humidity.

I had 2 main questions:
How do I lower the humidity from ~80%?
I was thinking of taking some of the husk out and replacing it with aspen.
Where should my hygrometer probe be within the tank?
I currently have it placed in the middle, closer to the ground level.

Probe placement sounds right.

Your substrate should not be wet. I know you need to soak a brick of that stuff so it expands. I would either set it out to dry for a day or two or put it in the oven on 200* for 15-20 mintes.

telling what you keep her in would help. but yeah, dry out the substrate. sounds like you got it to wet i highly doubt it would naturally be that high. if you have a screen cage top uncover it and or use a heat light to lower it, but once the substrate drys out that will make it to low...

She's being kept in a 10long. But it seems that the consensus is the substrate is too moist. I will dry it out now. Thanks for everyone's input.

i use coconut husk.. what kind do you use that you have to soak it first? i just buy and big bag of it and go.. i know that you dont have to spray it down so much cause it can retain water really well?

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Originally Posted by adam_degel

i use coconut husk.. what kind do you use that you have to soak it first? i just buy and big bag of it and go.. i know that you dont have to spray it down so much cause it can retain water really well?

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You can buy coconut husk in a brick and soak it in water.

i see, i see.. i would think that would just mold up way too soon?

I bought the kind that is just a big bag also, but I feel that it just retained too much moisture and is evaporating over my UTH.

I threw some of it in the oven and it has definitely dried, but my humidity levels are still rather high (76-80%).

Should I just wait it out and hope that the humidity drops? I don't want to have to keep moving her around while I fine tune her enclosure...

Just to clarify, what kind of hygrometer are you using?
Have you done anything to the screen top of the enclosure?

I am using the Zilla thermometer/hygrometer combo.
http://www.reptilesupply.com/images/...erThermome.jpg

I've left the screen exposed, so there is nothing to hold in the moisture... it is solely coming from the substrate...