How often do you have to mist/spritz your enclosures?

I'm in Canada Alberta and I mist once or twice a day. It's pretty dry here!


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I live in Florida and I used to have to mist everyday sometimes even twice a day since I have a tank, but I switched over to eco earth and that helped out a lot with the humidity. After about a month or so it starts to dry out (the humidity will be around 30%) and I'll just pour a pitcher of water into the substrate, let the heat lamps dry it up a little bit and that usually fixes it. According to my AcuRite, my humidity is always between 50%-70% without misting thanks to that one little trick, but after about 2 months I'll clean the tank and put some new eco earth in. I'm too scared I'll grow some kind of fungus if I keep the substrate for longer than 2 months.

I live in Missouri, have a tank (30 gallon), paper towels for 'substrate' and mist twice a day. I cover most of the top with a damp towel, but I use a heat lamp so it gets dry on the warmer side. I would like to never have to mist but I don't mind it too much. I enjoy checking on Fuzzy and just watching what s/he does.

This snake has been like my baby. I constantly worry when there's no need to worry. But this snake is the one that got me over my fear of snakes, so its all new.

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Originally Posted by Superpop

I live in Minnesota and it wildly varies how often I have to mist Snickers' tank.

It the winter it as dry as hell here even with an expensive humidifier in the house running. Snickers' tank gets misted once every night in the winter unless she goes into a shed in the middle of winter which is horrible because then we have to mist her tank down 4-5 times a day until she actually sheds.

During spring, summer, and fall her tank never has to be misted unless she is going into a shed and then 1 mist a day is sufficient for her to have a clean shed.

Winter here is a horrible biotch though.

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Why wouldn’t you just use a humid hide in this situation?

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Originally Posted by Chris0445

Why wouldn’t you just use a humid hide in this situation?

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Nobody has posted on this thread for 3 years...

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Originally Posted by Chris0445

Why wouldn’t you just use a humid hide in this situation?

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You are asking a question to someone that posted on 03-25-2012 (over 6 years ago) and has not been on the forum since 2013