I need advice on my terrarium

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Originally Posted by Smoothskin805

I put the feeder in a plastic bag last night. A few sources told me to put it in warm water for 10 minutes to thaw it out. I wanted to make sure it was good, so I waited 20 min. I then let the feeder cool down a bit afterwards.
When I fed smoothskin the feeder was dry and had a wee bit of blood coming out of its nose.
I then held the feeder in front of him with a pair of tongs. When he struck it and coiled around it I tried to mimic a mouse struggling, then dieing. That seemed to work out good.

Today my temp gun is arriving so I will be able to monitor everything.

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Sorry, I got ya. I was wondering how you thawed it in 20 min. Lol.

That's great that you will be getting a temp gun they are so nice. I love the night button on mine I can check it day or complete dark, didn't know I had one on it at first till I got to looking it over. Seems like your doing a fine job. It's really easy for the most part once you get what you need and learn what to do to keep BP's I Love them!!! even though I have only one.

So I am having a terribly annoying time with my humidity.
I live on the central coast of California, so in the morning and evening the humidity gets high, and during the day it is dry. Just when I think the humidity is good, fog rolls in or rolls out.

Any ideas?
I saw something on you tube about a "humidity box". Thoughts?

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Originally Posted by Smoothskin805

So I am having a terribly annoying time with my humidity.
I live on the central coast of California, so in the morning and evening the humidity gets high, and during the day it is dry. Just when I think the humidity is good, fog rolls in or rolls out.

Any ideas?
I saw something on you tube about a "humidity box". Thoughts?

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What are the humidity measurements that you're getting?

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Originally Posted by wnateg

What are the humidity measurements that you're getting?

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During the morning it will be about 80% and during the day it goes down to 40%
I have a big water bowl under the light. And luckily I've been home all day so I have been spraying some water inside trying to get it around 60%.
I fed him yesterday so sunday I plan on changing the substrate to see if that will help at all.

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Sorry ,under the CHE not a light.

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Originally Posted by Smoothskin805

So I am having a terribly annoying time with my humidity.
I live on the central coast of California, so in the morning and evening the humidity gets high, and during the day it is dry. Just when I think the humidity is good, fog rolls in or rolls out.

Any ideas?
I saw something on you tube about a "humidity box". Thoughts?

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You brought back memories about the fog...I used to live in Santa Barbara. Since you have some high humidity every day, I wouldn't worry about his humidity getting
low during part of the day...not at all. Nature isn't perfect either. You might want to put in a humid hide though...many snakes like & use them. Just get a big enough*
plastic food container (oblong- & rectangular), cut a doorway into the top & keep some moist substrate inside (soaked & drained moss, orchid bark, etc). That way if he
needs more, he can help himself to it...that's much better than trying to regulate the cage thru-out the day, & like I said, that's not even necessary anyway.
(*make sure it's big enough for both the snake AND the substrate you'll be using; get something on the large side & you can use extra substrate while he grows into it.)