Humidity too high in rack

My humidity in my racks is crazy high! Even with about 50-60 ventilation holes in each tub, with a small water bowl, the tubs steam up. I even took the water bowl out of one of the tubs to see if it would go down and it still steamed up.

I live in Florida, so I never have a problem with my humidity being low.

I threw my acurite in the tub that does NOT currently have a water dish in it any my humidity as 78%.

How do you lower humidity? Should I put more holes in the tubs?


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Get a dehumidifyer for your room :gj:

try a different guage;)
I have had a couple acurites get stuck reading very high.

Have you tried using paper as a substrate?

I use paper towels as substrate for all my snakes except my hognose and my dumerils boa. I've used both the acurite and an analog humidity gauge and they both read high. I hardly most except for when one of them is in shed.

How much do dehumidifiers run?

I'll be moving to a new apartment in town next week so I'm gonna wait and see what the humidity situation is like over there before I make any purchases.


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High humidity is a pain but a dehumidifier seems the easiest solution. Maybe under fifty bucks at walgreens or riteaid. Make sure water is NOT over the heat pad. If it is ambient heat in the rack and not belly heat you are pretty much stuck getting a dehumidifier... Fortunately here in NY the humidity in the summer never really breaks 60-70 which I find is optimal and don't use anything other than water dishes. Good luck finding a helpful solution.

Put a fan in your room. Air current helps a lot.
But getting a dehumidifier is probably your best bet.

And even if your hygrometers read high, I wouldn't worry too much as long as there is no moisture sticking to the sides of the tubs. (But it sounds like there is moisture).

Id look for a dehumidifyer on craigslist first. Im sure theres someone getting rid of one for cheap.

The water dishes are at the cool ends of the tubs and there is heavy condensation on 2 of the 4 tubs in the rack. I'm going to add some more holes and look in to getting a dehumidifier.


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Water dishes are unnecessary I think if humidity is that high already