Reducing humidity?

How to reduce humidity without:

• Adding more holes
• Lowering Temp
• Boosting Temp

The humidity is going up to like 80 from 65, I add more holes then it goes up to around 71-80

Thanks.

Is the cage dry, or is it moist? How are you measuring the humidity? Do the sides of the tubs fog up and get condensation on them?

The humidity is probably okay, you can reduce it letting the substrate dry out somewhat, if it's damp. But if the cage isn't wet and/or doesn't have condensation on the sides, it's probably alright. It'll likely drop down as you maintain the tubs over a longer period of time.

-Jen

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Originally Posted by LLLReptile

Is the cage dry, or is it moist? How are you measuring the humidity? Do the sides of the tubs fog up and get condensation on them?

The humidity is probably okay, you can reduce it letting the substrate dry out somewhat, if it's damp. But if the cage isn't wet and/or doesn't have condensation on the sides, it's probably alright. It'll likely drop down as you maintain the tubs over a longer period of time.

-Jen

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i use paper towels, everything is dry i measure it with an exo terra digital hygrometer im the type of person who will panic when the humidity reaches 80%

what is acceptable?
50-80?
or 50-70?

what number is too high?

Thanks

With papertowels, if the cage is dry then there's really no number that's too high - watch the snake. It's weird that the humidity would say it's that high when it's dry in the cage - it's probably just the lack of airflow plus natural evaporation from the water that's making the hygrometer spike. How long have you been monitoring the humidity for?

-Jen

high humidity % isn't a big issue. what is a big issue is when the humidity starts condensing in the tub. 40% humidity that is forming condensation on the inside of the tub is far worse than 90% humidity that does not.

Setting up a small oscillating fan can help lower humidity, but you may have to adjust the speed and distance from the enclosure to get it where you want it...

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Originally Posted by LLLReptile

With papertowels, if the cage is dry then there's really no number that's too high - watch the snake. It's weird that the humidity would say it's that high when it's dry in the cage - it's probably just the lack of airflow plus natural evaporation from the water that's making the hygrometer spike. How long have you been monitoring the humidity for?

-Jen

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Only a day now, i bought my own tub and it litterally has around 100 Holes in it.

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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant

high humidity % isn't a big issue. what is a big issue is when the humidity starts condensing in the tub. 40% humidity that is forming condensation on the inside of the tub is far worse than 90% humidity that does not.

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Ok thanks that makes me feel a bit better :)

I have the Exo Tearra Temp/Hum gauge. I find it useless for the humditiy. When compared to my very accurite cigar humdior gauages it is not even close. Mine actually goes the other way. It always tells me that the humidity is 13-17%, but when I put a good gauge in there it was 56%.

I suggest buying a better gauge. You might find yours is useless like mine. I still use mine for the temp, but thats it.

i dont have the dual one like hydro and temp together i have two separate ones if you have the dual one?

I am also from the UK so half of the things people suggest are not available in this country :(

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Originally Posted by SRMD94

i dont have the dual one like hydro and temp together i have two separate ones if you have the dual one?

I am also from the UK so half of the things people suggest are not available in this country :(

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Im sure that its the same technology in the singles thats in the dual.

Take the hydrometer out and perform a test. Google how to calibrate a hydrometer and follow the easy steps. You wont be able to calibrate yours but you will be albe to see if it is close to what it should be.

Or an easier way is if you have a cigar shop near you they sell calibration kits that are set at 70% so you would know for sure that you were testing it right and see if your gauge is right. They are cheap.

If your gauge is not working right you can change your whole tank but it will still be wrong. My tanks each have a digital themometer and a analog temp/humi gauge, and I just added a weather station montior to my tanks. I tend to over prepare. I just posted the station I bought, here is what I got. Not really what you need but will point you in the right direction. http://www.boaphileplastics.com/rhin...ball_room.html

When I first bought the ExoTerra gauge I was freaking out too because no matter what I did it still said low numbers.

Bottom line is TEST IT!!!!