Humidity Problem (Too High)

***NOTE PIC WAS BEFORE TEMPERATURE SETTLED IN***

Ok so I am really happy with the way my rack turned out. With a setpoint of 94 I am maintaining 89-91 on the hot side. I have a ceramic pedestal heater for the room set at 80. The cool side of the tube is staying at 78-79. I have alot of holes on the side of the tub and on the front as you can see in the pic below. Ambient humidity before turning all the heat on was roughly 30-35% with ambient temperature at 70. After about 2 hours I checked and the humidity was around 80% in the tub. I opened and checked and found the water bowl (which I left on the cool side and originally had room temperature water in it) was covered on the outside with condensation. I pulled the tub and let it air out to drop humidity. Currently there is reptibark in the tub which had been at 70 degrees before heat was added. First what would be ok for high humidity I know 60 is desired? Second any suggestions to lower humidity other then a room de-humidifier?

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I wouldn't worry too much as long as there isn't standing moisture in the tub or on the sides. Plus the Acurite can be a little off. I've had 2 Acurites of the same model give me two different humidty readings. (were 10% off from each other)
I personally keep my humidity in the 60-75% range.
Condensation on the side is an indicator for more holes or smaller water bowl. (this doesn't include when the snake urinates and what not because condensation will happen with that)

Beautiful rack, btw.

More holes lol

you can also change your substrate to something that doesn't hold moisture so well. aspen or paper based substrates would be much better for you I think.

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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant

More holes lol

you can also change your substrate to something that doesn't hold moisture so well. aspen or paper based substrates would be much better for you I think.

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It's starting to look like swiss cheese! I actually just went and dumped the reptibark. I threw in paper towels for the time being to see what happens. I figured if the water bowl condensed from ambient maybe the reptibark was doing the same. Aspen was the plan just hoped to use the reptibrak till it ran out. Trying to dial it in tonight so I can move my 1.0 pastel over since after work tomorrow I am checking out a 0.1 '10 pastel :banana: and wanted to quarentine her in the glass tank first.

Checked this morning and was 90-91 hot side (Follows tstat perfectly) and 78-79 cool side 59% humidity. :banana:

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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant

...you can also change your substrate to something that doesn't hold moisture so well. aspen or paper based substrates would be much better for you I think.

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I would also say to use paper/paper product. You can go to Home Depot and get 70 sheets of packing paper for like $5.

I'm sorry, I had to

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