Humidity Dropped

I've never had an issue with humidity before the weather got cold and the heaters started kicking on. I never had to spray to keep it around 50%. Now I cannot keep it above 20% and have to spray multiple times a day to get it up to 50%. I have a 55-gallon tank with Aspen mulch. I moved the water dish to the warm side, but I cannot bring up the humidity.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

Change the substrate to cypress mulch - you can really soak it past the point where aspen would start molding. Also cover the top with Glad Press n Seal or make a plexiglass cover for it.

Yup. Switch to cypress mulch or coco husk substrate.

You can also lay a damp towel, tin foil, or plexiglass over 90% of the screen to retain humidity.

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Originally Posted by Bruiser

I've never had an issue with humidity before the weather got cold and the heaters started kicking on. I never had to spray to keep it around 50%. Now I cannot keep it above 20% and have to spray multiple times a day to get it up to 50%. I have a 55-gallon tank with Aspen mulch. I moved the water dish to the warm side, but I cannot bring up the humidity.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

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Wow,that's weird,sounds like more of a problem then just the heat going on...it's like 25 here in NY,my heat is on and my tanks are actually right against the wall where I have the heat,but I have a spacey living room and it's connected to the kitchen so it's not affecting my humidity a whole lot.i have aspen in one tank and coco husk in the other.

where is your tank located and where is your heat located? Do u have this tank in a smaller type room?
I'd say keep 80% of the top of the tank covered with wett,not damp a wet towel. I keep my towel extremely wet..my tank stays a round 86 give or take hot side ,a hot spot of 91 and humidity stay steady between 40&60 on avg,as long as I mist a 1-2 times a day and keep most all of the screen covered with a wet towel

I also just picked up a 24qt bag of Eco earth and I'll be trying it when I clean my tanks out next weekend..
Here are my tanks and there is where the heat comes from,I keep my heat at about 71-73 in my apt
http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/...psaaf066ea.jpg
anyway here is my set up
Hope it helps

http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/...pscdf6e393.jpg

I have electric heat and omg does it dry out the air! I have to run a humidier in my living room. The humidity hasn't changed at all in my rack, but I'd be scared to see it if I were using tanks for the balls.

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I am having trouble with my humidity too. :(

Throw some eco-earth in there.
That stuff is magical

I have two water bowls in my vivarium set up, one underneath my ceramic and one on the cool side, I also mist occasionally and add moss when my BP is going into shed in a damp hide. I found this helped me and my BP's are on paper towels after my pastel got mites from aspen I bought in.

My tubs, on the other hand, I have silly high humidity with those! Opposite ends of the spectrum!