Proper humidity for Western Hognose

My wife fell in love with hoggies a few months ago and now she has two. Where do you keep your humidity levels? Living in Southern California we can easily see humidity levels below 20%. We are getting around 30 - 35% normally in the tank. From what I can come up with they do not require the humidity levels of our ball pythons except when in shed. However, I haven't seen any specific ranges in the care sheets I have checked. I did see that high humidity can lead to a RI in hognose, but it didn't say what that would be.

Thanks!

My hoggy is in a glass tank with a screen lid and 60w light over head. I have a few live plants in with a substrate mix of eco earth, repti bark, and cypress mulch. I water the plants ever so often and that soaks into the substrate. Other than that I do not do anything special for my hoggy and she sheds just fine. I believe since she usually is burrowed down in the caves she makes in the substrate it gives her all she needs because I always find nice full sheds when I refresh the substrate. I do not really monitor the humidity level in her tank but being in the same room as my only other glass tank and knowing that one will stay near 30% without misting I would guess it is near the same.

I know that I really didn't give you a number but like you have seen I have never found a caresheet that put much emphasis on their humidity levels. When I got started with her the caresheet I found and liked was on the extremehogs.com site but it only mentions not having excessive high humidity for them and do not give actual numbers.

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Originally Posted by KMG

My hoggy is in a glass tank with a screen lid and 60w light over head. I have a few live plants in with a substrate mix of eco earth, repti bark, and cypress mulch. I water the plants ever so often and that soaks into the substrate. Other than that I do not do anything special for my hoggy and she sheds just fine. I believe since she usually is burrowed down in the caves she makes in the substrate it gives her all she needs because I always find nice full sheds when I refresh the substrate. I do not really monitor the humidity level in her tank but being in the same room as my only other glass tank and knowing that one will stay near 30% without misting I would guess it is near the same.

I know that I really didn't give you a number but like you have seen I have never found a caresheet that put much emphasis on their humidity levels. When I got started with her the caresheet I found and liked was on the extremehogs.com site but it only mentions not having excessive high humidity for them and do not give actual numbers.

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Thanks! At least I'm not the only person who hasn't seen anything specific on humidity. I appreciate the information on what you are doing!

I keep one of my hoggies in a 10 gal w/ screen top and a uth. Humidity is usually pretty low unlike my ballz. My new little one is in a small sterilite with the lid poked with a bunch of holes. Humidity is a little higher in there. BTW, are you housing the 2 of them together? I've heard it can possibly lead to cannibalism. Just an fyi.

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Originally Posted by mandalorian

I keep one of my hoggies in a 10 gal w/ screen top and a uth. Humidity is usually pretty low unlike my ballz. My new little one is in a small sterilite with the lid poked with a bunch of holes. Humidity is a little higher in there. BTW, are you housing the 2 of them together? I've heard it can possibly lead to cannibalism. Just an fyi.

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No, they are, and always have been, in separate 5 gallon low profile tanks.