Coconut husk too wet

I was using newspaper as substrate in my BP rack but I was having difficulties keeping up the humidity so someone suggested coconut husk. I put it in my snakes tubs but I am finding it too moist. I figured in a couple of days it would dry up but it has been a week and the humidity has been (and still is) around 88%. Will RIs and scale rot be a risk to my snakes? Every couple or so hours I have been wiping the moisture off the sides of the tubs but some of my snakes are getting irritated and a couple of my most friendly snakes are getting snappy from my constant intrusion and one of my most shyest snakes even refused to eat this week. Even me wiping it down is not making a difference. Should I keep going with the coconut husk or should I go back to the unprinted news paper? (The unprinted news paper kept the humidity around 35%).

I have tried aspen but it was too dry too. I do not have the option of cypress mulch as it is very expensive here.

How deep is the substrate? Just thinning it out should solve the problem. You can also mix in dry with the stuff that's already wet at about a 50/50 ratio. Or use the paper as the base substrate and just sprinkle enough of the wet substrate to keep the humidity bumped.

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Originally Posted by JLC

How deep is the substrate? Just thinning it out should solve the problem. You can also mix in dry with the stuff that's already wet at about a 50/50 ratio. Or use the paper as the base substrate and just sprinkle enough of the wet substrate to keep the humidity bumped.

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Yes. What I usually do is soak 2 bricks all day (or overnight), spread out the resulting 'mulch' in the terrarium and then mix in a third, dry brick in and around the areas where the hides will be placed.

There is only about a centimeter thick layer... so not much. I will have to get some dry stuff then and hopefully it helps. Thank you.