Humidity way too high

Yeah...I feel like a n00b. All the research I've done and I don't think it's gonna help me now. I just got my baby ball Tuesday, and since then I've been fighting with high humidity. Yesterday it was 80% humidity outside, so of course in my tank humidity was around the high 70's, which is a no-no during non-shed times. Anyway, I just checked now, and the humidity still hasn't dropped any. It's currently at 77% humidity. I'm afraid if it goes on for another day I might have an RI on my hands. I just shut my window in my room hoping it'd stop all that humidity coming in, and just left a fan circulating air in my room, hoping it'd lower the humidity. I'll wait until tommorrow, and if the humidity doesn't drop, I'm thinking of putting in a small air conditioner we have spare. It's a small little ac. It shouldn't affect my temps much since currently I'm easily getting 93 degrees and 83 degrees. I'm not worried about that much anyway, because I probably won't be running it for too long. The idea is to air out my room and cool it down enough so the humidity lowers. Here's where you people come in(yes there was a reason to this topic)..do you think running an AC for a bit will help lower the humidity? I'm stressed out so much..can't sleep. I'm afraid I've just got my ball and I'll already have an RI on my hands...which I currently can't afford to have. :cry: Any help or ideas to lower the humidity would be hugely appreciated.

running an ac in the room will lower humidity. if the whole house has ac i would run that also. dropping the house temps around mid 70's with ac will lower the humidity.

thanks

vaughn

What he said. :)

i live on the coast in georgia, where is stays pretty humid year round. when i first got my bp i actually had trouble keeping my humidity high enough because i run the ac in my apartment. they do wonders for taking the moisture out of the air. :D

Hahaha, oh my God I feel like such a n00b. The digital thermometers I use aren't acurite, so I have an acurite knockoff(with only one temp reading...choice of reading it from probe or base) and humidity. Then I bought a second little thermometer for just the cool side. Well I assumed that humidity was taken from probe. I was wrong. I was wondering why everytime I move the base unit(I have them on the outside to read easily..probes on inside) the humidity would change. So then I thought "duh...maybe it's read from the base" so I blew on it, and it spiked to over 95%. So I crossed my fingers, and placed the base in the tank. 5 minutes later it went down to 60%. Problem solved!! :D So all along the humidity was fine at 60 in the tank. It's just my room thats in the 70's. Big d'oh! for me. :oops:

well hey, i'm glad at least that you got it figured out and everything is right where it is supposed to be. :wink:

Right up there on the list of easiest fixes ever. :)

I don't think that 80% humidity is anything to lose sleep over. As long as the substrate isn't damp and your temps are where they should be, you should be fine. All of us glass aquarium owners struggle to get it up to 70% during shed times.

I think I'll be fine. Ever since I put the thermometer base in the tank, I've been at a steady 60%, sometimes dropping a bit to 55. Then when I spray the reptibark down a bit, it goes up to 75% and stays there for quite a while. A month ago when I was getting my tank together, I cut a piece of cardboard to size, cut a hole big enough for the lamp if I need to use it, and fastened it to the inside(prevents noserubs :)) of the tank top with twisty ties. That seems to hold humidity in well. Around shed time, if I get tired of misting a few times a day, I might just get some sphagnum moss, and put some in the cage here and there.

I don't have any windows open, only central AC and my humidity is around 55-60 in the rubbermaid.