shedding and temp

:? (Sigh......)

I don't really think that the temp in the cage will affect When the snake shds. Like when it's, um, that time of the month, the event will happen regardless of outside situations. But your method of heating the cahe will affect your humidity level, which will directly affect How your snake sheds.

Nobody here mentioned that lightbulbs where humidity killing until you just did marla. Everyone else mentioned the photo period thing, which I already knew, but had to wait till this weekend to fix. AS for humidity killing lightbulbs....never heard of that and considering the fact I have lightbulbs on my frogs and their humidities need to be higher than the snakes and I don't have a problem keeping their humidities up. I don't see how the lightbulbs could be humidity killing. Besides I have a solid top on the tank to keep humidity and heat in, as well as having a large water dish in his tank for humidity I can and have misted his tank when the humidities get low. Even though the temps had been lowered, I had kept the humidity up. AS I mentioned the temps for fine during the day, and the daylight bulb had already come on when I woke up and checked temps and humidity, everything was fine in daylight hours. It wasn't until I got up before the daylight bulb came on and the nightlight had yet to turn off that I found out that the nightbulb was not heating well enough. So, I immediately turned the daylight bulb on to get the temps up. That same day, is the day same day that hubby turned the a/c on. I knew the a/c would affect the tank temps, so I checked to see how it was doing and it was lowered considerably. So, I used a one of the spare daylight bulbs I had (I keep several various wattages of bulbs, both red adylight and nighttime for emergencies, I just happened to have used the las nighttime bulb on another animal and the store was out), that was higher wattage to heat tank up to correct temps with a/c on. The humidity was fine everyday that I checked and I checked early and again when I got home from work and again before I went to bed. Since I know how crucial that this period can be I monitored Dobby well. It was while I was asleep that I had the problems. However, the more I think about it, I don't think the temps could have been low for more than 3 or 4 hours at night, and this was only for 2 days. Since I have a solid top that keeps the heat and humidity in, and when I check the temps at 1230 they were fine every night, the nightbulb had been on for 4 hours at this point, it wasn't until I got up at 6am that the temps had dropped, so sometime in between this time frame the temps had dropped. The daybulb comes on at 7am.
BTW Dobby shed 2 days ago, day after my original post. He shed in one complete piece, eye caps and all. His humidity levels are 70% right now, and I haven't misted the tank in 3 days.

Congratulations on a good shed.

I use a 60 Watt red bulb and it works fine but my snakes are kept in Sterilite tubs but i did have Jojo in a screen top tank. Right now Jojo is going to shed any day now and what i do is i fill the spray bottle with hot water and mist it onto the substrate on the warm side of the tank. I have had a light bulb go out at an inconvenient time. Or even if the power goes out. I have a first aid kit so i used one of the heat packs to hold my snakes over till the power came back on or i can get a new bulb. With the humidity at 70% thats perfect but it depends on how your reading that 70% do you have an analog meter or a digital meter. I could put my analog and my digital hygrometers side by side and the analog one always reads higher then the digital one. Maybe its time for me to get a new analog but if you spray your substrate often maybe once a day in the morning to almost simulate morning dew would be acceptable. A temp drop is ok just as long as it doesn't get below 78. If you have a light on at night then you should be ok because he can always choose which side of the tank he wants to be on. I noticed that wight my enclosures they used to get really cool like 75 even 74 on the cool side so i moved the tanks to an area that didnt get hit my the AC vents. Congrats on the shed it great when they give it to you in one piece. I haven't had a clean shed the last 2 times Jojo shed because he likes to leave a little surprize inside.

Sorry for the wordy post.

I have an analog in all of my tanks and a digital one I use to double check the analogs, I check the analogs once a week. So, far all but one of my analogs is on the money, the one that is off is only by a small amount. It was too expensive to buy a digital for all my tanks to monitor daily, so I bought the analogs as a daily check and then I make sure they are working well with the digital. My whole apartment stays pretty humid. Which is why we have the ac on, the humidity makes it feel like it's hotter inside than it is outside. We have 3 fish tanks in the upstairs and that keeps the humidity up. The temp in this room stays nice and warm since I have all these lights on.
The vent is on the ceiling near the window, so there are no animals near the vent. I am thinking about getting a stand that will support all my cages or at least half of them, but still thinking about whether I want to reoganize everyone.

I have a digital one in Jojo's house but at about $16 a digital one is expensive. And GE stopped making those light blue and white ones so i have to find another one for Coco's house. As far as aranging tanks i have the same problem. A while back i had a ball python that died an I got really discourged and i had an actual fish tank that he was living in and its a 20 gallon long. So i coulnt just have an empty tank so i made it into a fish tank i got 6 Cichlids in there. I had the tanks right below the thermostat for my AC so i moved it because the heat lamp would make the AC turn on. They make these steel shelves that you can buy at Home Depot or Lowes and they can support like 1000 pounds. But as far a snake tanks they are not that heavy and they are even lighter if you are using sterilite tubs. I plan on putting some track shelving with some wire shelves on the wall and put my snake houses on that. The best thing about this type of shelving is completely adjustable and you can put it just about anywhere and they are cheap. These things can hold hundreds of pounds but you got to screw them into the studs.

I can't screw into the studs. This apartment was built about 30 years ago and the studs are screwy. I can't figure out what they are made of, but can't nail into them and screws don't work either. All the stuff I have hanging is light stuff. Wonder how much one would hold without screwing into the studs. I know I almost bought a shelf from home depot, I work there.

Umm, about two 64-fl oz bottles of laundry detergent, one bottle of vinegar, and a couple of shirts. Then the wall gets torn up.

What do you mean the wall gets torn up?