HELP unhealthy heat and humidity problem

Covering the top not only helps retain humidity, it also really helps to maintain your ambient temps on the cool side. Since its covered, its not really affected by drafts in the room that might pull the heat out of the enclosure. Glass tanks are pretty tricky to keep. My days are numbered with mine though, I'm on the waitlist for a brand spankin new Animal Plastics cage!

and i envy you for that! one day maybe i'll be on that list too! :D

You might also be able to do well with turning down your own AC so the ambient temps are warmer in the room. In my old apartment we had no A/C, and the ambient was about 75-80 at any given time in the room. I had to turn the heatpads down a little so they wouldn't get too hot. It was a bit toasty for me in the room, but the snakes loved it!

that's a good point--i keep the vents closed in the room where i have my bp and that keeps it a good 10 degrees warmer than the rest of the apt. that also will allow the room to be a little more humid, not to mention that it should prevent you from having to use so many lights.

I live in an apartment complex with central air.
The temp in my apartment is usually around 75, with the heat pad on low the temps in my snakes enclosures are around 90, depending on how much substrate I put down, for example ... if I put a really thin layer, the temps could go up to 95 easily.
I have mastered the art of laying down aspen, so my temps get to 92 at the highest.

I use newspaper, and I also use those zoomed heat pads. I like them because they stick easily to the bottom of the tank (but heaven forbid you ever want to move one to another tank; you might as well buy another one, lol.) I have them hooked to lamp dimmers, though, since they get wWAY too hot by themselves. I do not use any heat lamps; in my opinion, they dry the air out too much and are only good for reptiles that need UV rays, and Bps are nocturnal so they do not need that. My house never goes below 79-80 degrees anyhow.

WWOOOOOWHOOOOOOO. thanks for the Info everyone I wrapped the cool side totaly and sort of covered the warm side but left enough open to not touch the light. I took all but my 75w spot light down and its on the hot side the heat pad is on the same side. The temp is hot side 93.6 and cool side 75 - 78 humidity is 56% in the day and 63% at night my night time temp is a great 73 on both sides.. Thanks for the help. Oh P.S I moved him from hoppers to small mice and he ate 2 small mice. No problems I think I have a very happy snake. He use to ball up when I would take him out of his cage at the store. But now he's just like hey cool I get to knock things off the coffee table again lets go and never even trys to ball up.

Congratz on getting your setup up and running.

73 on both the hot and cool side at night is somewhat low. They should always have a hot (90-95) side to retreat to.
I have a 20L which I have had running sucessful since 12/03 home now to it's second bp.
I covered the entire screen top w/ duct tape then on the cool side I put a small light w/ 75watt red bulb on t-stat. On the hot side I have a human heat pad under about 1/3 of the tank w/ the tank prop up about 1/2" for circulation also on a t-stat.
I cut out the duct tape about 1/2" larger than the light for air.
I use reptibark on the floor.
My cool side temp stays a solid 81.5 to 82.2 w/ the warm side stays at 91-93 w/ an overall temp of about 83-85
Humididty stays at 62-64% ( water dish is about 1/4 over heat pad)
Hope this helps.

man i feel ur refreshment towards ur succes i felt like that yesterday when i got all the temps right in my cage for the first time.