uhm.. questions

right now were experimenting with substrate.. we were using the aspen, now using little carefresh ultra till we use it up. i will try the rice bag and can take out the log if nessesary. the water bowls are conciderably smaller than before all of which brought it down some.. it was in the 90s now in low 80s%... thanks for the suggestions

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Originally Posted by GirDance

I can't remember what post it was on... But if you've tried pretty much everything else for your humidity seriously try adding a ventilated cloth bag of long grain rice in there ( I have enough room to hang it from the top of mine)... Rice absorbs quite a bit of humidity and you can just add more or less if it's not doing the trick, or is absorbing too much you just remove a bit.

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That is a really unique idea...I like it!

In S. Florida I am not sure anything will really help (outside a dehumidifier in the room) . I would just make sure you have plenty of airflow in the tank/tub. Stagnant air is much more dangerous then high humidity and is what leads to mold and RI's.

You should also bake (or put outside in the hot sun) your aspen before putting it in the cage to remove excess moisture which will help some.

Ashley, if you haven't had a chance to check them out yet have a look through the stickies on the shedding process and what to do about a bad shed. Both can be found in the BP forums...one under general, the other I believe under husbandry (we need to get these two in the same area Mod/Admin folks :) ). They really are invaluable, excellent threads to read over.

well, we were going to go back to aspen (Trying to get this scale rot gone first) at least i know now to bake the bedding first, never thought of that before. as i said before i can take out the driftwood, it is very dry and almost scratchy.. not damp AT ALL, i just thought it would help with sheds and take up space in the enclosure... otherwise we have false leaves in there making it more "Real" not that they have ever been in the wild concidering they are CB its more for my own prefrence i suppose. south florida is horrible for humidity.. and a dehumidifier wouldnt work because our boys have excema and the dehumidifier makes their skin worse, to cracking! we had to use one with our baby boy who had horrible respitory problems and once those went away we got rid of it.. and the childrens skin got better.. at this point they hold prefrence hmmm will try the rice thing though, i bet pantyhose would work to hold it! we had added lots of holes too

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Ashley, if you haven't had a chance to check them out yet have a look through the stickies on the shedding process and what to do about a bad shed. Both can be found in the BP forums...one under general, the other I believe under husbandry (we need to get these two in the same area Mod/Admin folks :) ). They really are invaluable, excellent threads to read over.

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i will take another look at them, i had read them briefly before but this little guy hasnt shed at all yet, just yicky eyes and not so pretty scales

If it's not smooth and damp to the touch then it should be fine.

We had a problem with the driftwood here holding in far too much humidity, although at the time that tank would be misted a few times a day, and then over time humidity would rise higher and higher. We went with the rice bag, and put in a new peice of driftwood. When you would touch the other one it actually felt a bit damp - that was my main concern with the driftwood for your set up... I was hoping it wasn't too damp for you.

I've got a peice in mine as well! :)

Panty hose should work! I had some old mesh 'gifty' decorative bags laying around which I had always used for stuff like that... It was so humid in my last apartment I had to keep them in all my dresser drawers with rice in them or things would get damp and musty smelling :(

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Originally Posted by lord jackel

That is a really unique idea...I like it!

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Thanks :) I got the idea from my grandmother who always kept rice in the salt shakers!!! It doesn't have an immediate effect, but you start to notice it working within a couple days... I've probably side mentioned it in any humidity too high post on here... lol

I've never had to bake aspen, well not the fine shred stuff I buy from WalMart anyways. It's dry as a bone right out of the bag. Cypress mulch, now that's a different story...that stuff is almost soaking wet when it's packed.

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

I've never had to bake aspen, well not the fine shred stuff I buy from WalMart anyways. It's dry as a bone right out of the bag. .

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Yea...I think the larger bags seem to have more moisture (compaction forces the moisture out and less dry time)...you and I also pry don't notice it as much since our climates are so much dryer...but in S. Florida every little bit of moisture just adds to the problem.