New BP! I need help!

I just got a baby girl ghost! She's really cute, but I'm having problems with humidity...

I am using coconut husk substrate and I think that it's the cause of my high humidity.

I had 2 main questions:
How do I lower the humidity from ~80%?
I was thinking of taking some of the husk out and replacing it with aspen.
Where should my hygrometer probe be within the tank?
I currently have it placed in the middle, closer to the ground level.

Probe placement sounds right.

Your substrate should not be wet. I know you need to soak a brick of that stuff so it expands. I would either set it out to dry for a day or two or put it in the oven on 200* for 15-20 mintes.

telling what you keep her in would help. but yeah, dry out the substrate. sounds like you got it to wet i highly doubt it would naturally be that high. if you have a screen cage top uncover it and or use a heat light to lower it, but once the substrate drys out that will make it to low...

She's being kept in a 10long. But it seems that the consensus is the substrate is too moist. I will dry it out now. Thanks for everyone's input.

i use coconut husk.. what kind do you use that you have to soak it first? i just buy and big bag of it and go.. i know that you dont have to spray it down so much cause it can retain water really well?

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Originally Posted by adam_degel

i use coconut husk.. what kind do you use that you have to soak it first? i just buy and big bag of it and go.. i know that you dont have to spray it down so much cause it can retain water really well?

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You can buy coconut husk in a brick and soak it in water.

i see, i see.. i would think that would just mold up way too soon?

I bought the kind that is just a big bag also, but I feel that it just retained too much moisture and is evaporating over my UTH.

I threw some of it in the oven and it has definitely dried, but my humidity levels are still rather high (76-80%).

Should I just wait it out and hope that the humidity drops? I don't want to have to keep moving her around while I fine tune her enclosure...

Just to clarify, what kind of hygrometer are you using?
Have you done anything to the screen top of the enclosure?

I am using the Zilla thermometer/hygrometer combo.
http://www.reptilesupply.com/images/...erThermome.jpg

I've left the screen exposed, so there is nothing to hold in the moisture... it is solely coming from the substrate...

It could be possible that the hygrometer sensor got wet. In that case you will get a somewhat inaccurate reading.

I would let it dry out for a few hours and see if it comes down.

70-80% humidity for a little while isn't a big deal.

just use a small heat lamp to balance it out, putting it in the oven just seems like over-doing it

the oven thing worked... its still a little moist, but over my 3 or 4 hours at work, the humidity dropped from 8X% to 71%... thats just the ambient humidity though. within her hide, its definitely more humid... hopefully, it'll continue dropping... but would it be too bad a thing to maintain high 60's to low 70's?

I use coconut fibre in the brick form and I let it dry out for a day or two before using it! Is your water dish near the warm side? That can also raise the humidity! At 70%, I wouldn't worry! It will dry out soon!

At first, I had the water dish on the warm side... but I quickly moved it over to the cool side when I saw the humidity level. But yeahhh!!! Now we're at 67% !

67% is fine! A little high but it will be okay!