1st BP and her eye's have clouded over?

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Originally Posted by alpine

You know, I had one that did that one time, I think a little water got on the inside which caused the readings to get all screwy because haven't had a need to mist at all. That being said I took it out and let it sit for a day and now it is reading what the rooms humidity is.

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Yeah, I just checked the tank again, same 99%. So I wiped down the glass condensation and moved the thermometer of to the warm side of the hide.. You can see a line in the cypress mulch were the heat lamp is drying out the warm side.. It follows the way the plexiglass covers 2/3 of her tank.

The hygrometer reading 99% isn't a problem. Check the substrate... is it soggy or just a little moist? Soggy or pools is bad, a little moist is fine. It's fine to leave the water on the glass sides, actually it's better if you do. The water will evaporate off the glass and keep the enclosure humid and since the snake doesn't sit on the walls all day it doesn't pose any risk to have the water pooled there. Just make sure it isn't pooled on the bottom where the snake is.

It's almost always 5 days after the cloudy eyes that they shed. Good luck!

Sounds for sure that she is in shed. I keep my humidity between 60 and 65% and just let them do the work. Double check your humidity guage to check for accuracy. Otherwise, good luck!

After moving the humidity gauge to the warmer side it now reads 80% .. This has dropped from the 99% this morning.. The substrate is moist on the side that the plexi-glass covers(cool side) and really pretty dry on her warm side.. No pools of water or anything like that on either side. I did have a homemade humidifier hooked up, but when I seen that 99% I turned it off.. Like I said, looks like the humidity is coming down some, I'll watch it and make sure it doesn't drop to low, say below 70% during her shed though.. Ambient temp at close to center of the tank or maybe 2/3 towards warm side is right at 80..

Looks like the Humidity is going to stay around 80% for awhile.. I took her plexiglass and screen off to get to he water dish and it dropped to 70% in a matter of say 3-5 minutes, but so did her ambient temp. It went down to 76 degrees in that time also... As soon as I replaced it it climbed back to 80% with a temp of 81 degrees..
Hope this is comfortable for her during her shedding period..?

Woke up this afternoon and turned on Avalon's day light... Looked in her hide and there is a nice clean looking little head sticking out right next to a nice sized ball of skin.. I think it went well for her..
I'll let my daughter check her when she gets home from school in a few hours. I know she has been wanting to keep the skin.:)

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Originally Posted by BillinIndiana

Woke up this afternoon and turned on Avalon's day light... Looked in her hide and there is a nice clean looking little head sticking out right next to a nice sized ball of skin.. I think it went well for her..
I'll let my daughter check her when she gets home from school in a few hours. I know she has been wanting to keep the skin.:)

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awesome. good to hear the shed went well. Usually just mist a couple of days before shed(once you see the cloudy eyes go back to normal) and perfect sheds should be the result, worked for me the last 9 years haha :)