humidity problem

im having a humidity problem with all my tanks. i cant keep it high enough. summer is fine, they stay high enough, but now that winters coming, i cant get it high enough. i tryed contac paper, and wet towels work decently, but not great and i have to kkeep replacing them. anyone have any suggestions on how i can keep humidity? would it be ok it i put some spungum moss (i think thats what its called) or peet moss in there and left it in there? thx for the help

If you're contemplating adding sphagnum moss I'd whip up a humid hide (you could always leave the lid off to help the tank overall as well). I recently made one out of a (big plastic) Folger's can - just melted out a large enough entrance and filled with sphagnum that had soaked and been wrung out. I can alternately use or remove the lid - and it has resulted in Kali (oops sorry shoulda mentioned this was for a blood) spending equal time in the humid hide as well as the water bowl - where previously she had nearly taken up permanent residence (temps ok, no mites, hum% not too bad).

You could always up the humidity in the room where your tanks are. A room humidifier would keep the humidity in the room nice and high and therefore your tanks nice and humid.

led, i tried that. it didnt work. can i just put the moss in the tank?

A room humdifier didn't work, or are you talking about the small DIY tank one?

I'm shocked that a room humidifier wasn't enough.

You can put sphagnum moss directly in the tank to help with humidity.

the room humidifirer didnt. it raised it 1 or 2% but nothing significant

I'd keep the moss off everything else and contained - just a lot neater. Even just having that in there with no lid on it would allow the sphagnum to up the humidity in the enclosure pretty significantly. Worth a shot. Smynx recently bought a little humidifier for her area and it works well enough as it is almost a small seperate room - down here it's wide open and gas heat so I'll have my hands full in that regard as well.

Smulkin is right about how messy the moss can be.

I gave up on the moss, but the room humidifer works wonders for me.
Also, I plan on getting other herps eventually that will require high humidity, so it wasn't an issue. Plus, I already had the humdifier and the airwasher keeps the air clean and moist in the rest of my place.

i have a 10 x 10 herp room and a small $20.00 humidifier keeps my room easily in the mid 70%


vaughn

do your enclosures have screen tops? cause if so you could try something simple like a wet towel on top, then something like glad warp over the towel to help seal it in
odds are you already tried that, cause i read the wet towel use, just not sure if you used something over the top to help trap the humidity in