Lowering Humidity

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Originally Posted by TanyaL

What can you expect from a $15 unit right?

Because of the sweat spots where the water dish and the snake was laying, I don't doubt that the humidity is as high as the accurite reads.

We moved the probe just a few minutes ago and so far it's dropped to 78%. I wonder if maybe since the probe was in the substrate that gave the high reading. It wasn't buried but it wasn't laying on top either.

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The probe itself only measures temperature, not humidity. The device itself measures humidity. If you just worded the sentence wrong, thats o.k - I thought I would just give you a heads up if you didn't know.

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Originally Posted by missi182

The probe itself only measures temperature, not humidity. The device itself measures humidity. If you just worded the sentence wrong, thats o.k - I thought I would just give you a heads up if you didn't know.

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Nope...not worded wrong...just thinking wrong! LOL

Since the accurite measures two temps, I was thinking of it as in indoor/outdoor thermometer, with the probe measuring temp and humidity, outside. I was just having one of those DUH moments. LOL

Thanks again everybody for the help. The humidity is slowly dropping. The last time I checked it was down to 76%.

I have had similar problems with substrate. If you know it's going to be humid beforehand you can dry it out before you use it. I have avoided this problem by having an extra 20 long set-up all the time. When its time to clean one, I just move the snake into the "already perfect" enclosure, then clean the old set-up and I'm all ready for the next cleaning day.