new ball not feeding yet

Also, if you wanted to experiment, live foliage in potted plants can also help raise the ambient humidity.

Always, never use chemically treated soil or plants. Just an idea, and it would provide cover while raising the ambient humidity.

Look up non-poisonous plants like hibiscus and umbrella plants. Something strong, hardy that does not require too much effort. ;)

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

Some people use them temporarily as a means to help a snake shed. It is not a permanent solution in many cases because unless the snakes spends a majority of his time in the humid hide, he is not getting the benefit of higher humidity.

Leaving a humid hide in all the time can breed harmful bacteria, fungi, mold. If the snake prefers the humid hide too often, he can develop scale rot and possibly an upper respiratory infection.

If you leave the humidity too low, you risk stuck sheds, and quite possibly a URI.

I found that if you cannot get the temps up with just a UTH, to cover the 3 back sides with house insulation board or cork board. Try to get rid of the ceramic heater or light since it does suck out humidity extremely fast.

You may also have to mist a few times a day. We dont want the substrate too moist, since that can also breed harmful bacteria and promotes belly rot.

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thats kinda what i figured. i think the store was intending for it to just be used around shedding time. after checking my humidity again, its still sitting around 55% on the warm side of the cage, under the heat lamp. i think later today i'll move the sensor to the other side and see how that side looks.

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

Also, if you wanted to experiment, live foliage in potted plants can also help raise the ambient humidity.

Always, never use chemically treated soil or plants. Just an idea, and it would provide cover while raising the ambient humidity.

Look up non-poisonous plants like hibiscus and umbrella plants. Something strong, hardy that does not require too much effort. ;)

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i was actually thinking about that for a while, but i'll most likely wait on live plants until i get everything else somewhat stable, and i get a few successful feeds and a shed. i just found a new pet store (the local one closed), so i should be able to make more changes with out having to order everything.

hey about the hides the log is not the best, i had it when i first got mitch and he would never go into he would jus hide behind his water bowl, but insted of throwin the log out i cut it kind of like u would a sandwich corner to corner and leaned the open space up against the walls and covered the entrance with a bit of the sub and mitch loves it now spends all his time between the 2 and loves 2push the sub around so that it almost covers the whole entrance. worked for me and is an easy way to make 2hides out of 1.:gj:

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hey about the hides the log is not the best, i had it when i first got mitch and he would never go into he would jus hide behind his water bowl, but insted of throwin the log out i cut it kind of like u would a sandwich corner to corner and leaned the open space up against the walls and covered the entrance with a bit of the sub and mitch loves it now spends all his time between the 2 and loves 2push the sub around so that it almost covers the whole entrance. worked for me and is an easy way to make 2hides out of 1.:gj:

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thats actually a really good idea, hadn't thought of that yet. right now, lennie uses it a lot, but like a lot of people seem to be suggesting, that may be just because its the only one in there. he only takes up about half of the space under it most of the time anyway.