Controlling Humidity -- Help!

a room 67-72 that is 50% is already humid enough. the water bowl between 2 heat pads may act like a humidifier in the tub. i actually use a tub very similiar to that for quarantine. you may be getting higher humidity due to condensation, inside the tub the air is warmer and more humid than the air in the room. so condensation forms and adds to you humidity in the tub. i would try to use one heat pad and put the water on the opposite side. or put the tub in a closet and use a small space heater to heat the closet up to around 78-80 deg. this would stop the condensation.

vaughn

What type of substrate, if any, are you using in your setup? There may be some things you can do to altar that to help with the humidity...what are you using now?

-BT

I wish I had some advise for you. I cant keep humidity in my tank!:confuzd:

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Originally Posted by JLC

Start off by getting a smaller water dish. The snake doesn't need to soak at all. Make sure the water is on the cool side of the enclosure. Also, a fan circulating the air nearby will help a lot, too. And then if those things don't bring it down to more manageable levels, you may have to put more holes.

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For my sand boa, the coconut is great for when she's in shed. She always have a perfect shed and it holds humidity quite well. But you are correct, it can have insane humidity if its the whole tank/tub with the coconut if it isn't fully dried.

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Originally Posted by Vomitore

For my sand boa, the coconut is great for when she's in shed. She always have a perfect shed and it holds humidity quite well. But you are correct, it can have insane humidity if its the whole tank/tub with the coconut if it isn't fully dried.

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Yep yep. So if you are using a "moist" substrate like that...try taking it all out and replacing it with a couple layers of paper....not as "pretty" but could help with the high humidity.

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Originally Posted by kavmon

a room 67-72 that is 50% is already humid enough. the water bowl between 2 heat pads may act like a humidifier in the tub. i actually use a tub very similiar to that for quarantine. you may be getting higher humidity due to condensation, inside the tub the air is warmer and more humid than the air in the room. so condensation forms and adds to you humidity in the tub. i would try to use one heat pad and put the water on the opposite side. or put the tub in a closet and use a small space heater to heat the closet up to around 78-80 deg. this would stop the condensation.

vaughn

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I am currently using newspaper as a substrate, mostly because I don't want to deal with the effort that comes with other substrate materials.

What you're recommending is only using one heater? How hot should I keep it? I'm guessing 92-94, and let the snake sort everything else out? I know that the water bowl is acting like a humidifier.. It's pretty obvious, once I put the water bowl in the tank, the humidity shoots off the charts!

Thanks for any more advice you guys can give me.

-Matthew

yes, try using just one heat pad to get the hot side up to 92-ish. try heating just one third to one half.

vaughn

Well, using only one heat pad made the container only 60% humid, but I thought that the snakes needed two different heating zones to regulate their body temperature?

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Originally Posted by Stewy

Well, using only one heat pad made the container only 60% humid, but I thought that the snakes needed two different heating zones to regulate their body temperature?

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One heat pad on one side of the tub should create just such a gradient, although the cool side may be a bit cooler than ideal. But so long as its not TOO cold, (consistently or frequently below 75F) then I think that's better than risking scale rot from excessive humidity.

I have also heard (and someone correct me if I am incorrect) that the brown colored "snake carpet" that some people use in the bottom of their tanks can actually absord and reduce humidity. If this is true you could try adding that in place of or addition to newspaper.

-BT