Ways to keep humidity up

What are some methods to keep the humidity up in a ball python enclosure? My ball python had a terrible shed last time and I want his next shed to be better. So share with me how to keep a vivarium nice and humid.

Substrate change. Using foil tape to cover the screen top. Get rid of lamps. Move to a tub.

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Originally Posted by Kaorte

Substrate change. Using foil tape to cover the screen top. Get rid of lamps. Move to a tub.

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This is literally 15 pages of answers packed into one post and 4 simple sentences. The only other thing you could do is keep a damp towel over the open part of the screen, but that's a pain to keep damp

If it's a tank or large viv then a humid hide works well.

As large of a water bowl as can fit into the enclosure. This works in 2 ways. More surface area to add to the humidity and more importantly, allows the snake to soak before a shed.

Jim Smith

I use the foil over the screen enclosure.....
when they are blue we spray down the tank 2 to 3 times a day...
humid hide which is filled with moss and sprayed down....
wet towel over the other side of the enclosure...

Now this might be overkill for some...but we live in AZ. I have to add...I cannot wait until I get my tubs as I hear that this is no longer a problem with tubs!!!

Since I have been doing this I have had perfect sheds.....(clearly did not start out like that)

I am certainly no expert and have only had my Ball Python for 4 months, and I am sure somebody will tell me I am doing something wrong, but this is how we got our first huge success with a complete shed.

I wet two face cloths and put one at each end of the screen top (this was the perfect size to fit to the edges) I then covered each with a clear square of perspex (from amazon), to prevent evaporation. I left around one third of the screen uncovered where the heat lamp is. I sprayed often and kept the face clothes moist but not dripping in the tank. I replaced the face cloth for clean ones every day or so. Dont have the perspex too close to lamps though as it will go out of shape. I also have a large water bowl in the tank.

All the effort payed off when we found Slinky had shed in one piece over night. I was so proud :-)

Good luck with yours.

We had a perfect shed last month depite humidity dropping to the 30s due to a dry spell plus the heat lamp. How I raised humidity (in a glass tank) was by having 2 constantly wet paper towels in the tank, along with the water bowl. Rather than spraying a mist, I'd occasionally dab the wet paper towels at various spots on the substrate (newspaper plus paper towel), but not actually inside the warm hide where BP was.

It worked! Good luck!

Get a small bowl and some spagnum moss. Get the moss wet in the bowl or cup.It will boost your humidity.

Use a cypress mulch substrate. I use a UTH and a basking lamp to keep my temps up. I use cypress mulch and repti bark and my humidity is in the 50-60% range even with the lamp. If it does drop down I can just use the spagnum moss and it's all good

I put a wet washcloth over the screen and cover that with a piece of aluminum foil. Sometimes I need to mist too depending on the house temperatures/humidity.