Humidity too high in rack

My humidity in my racks is crazy high! Even with about 50-60 ventilation holes in each tub, with a small water bowl, the tubs steam up. I even took the water bowl out of one of the tubs to see if it would go down and it still steamed up.

I live in Florida, so I never have a problem with my humidity being low.

I threw my acurite in the tub that does NOT currently have a water dish in it any my humidity as 78%.

How do you lower humidity? Should I put more holes in the tubs?


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Get a dehumidifyer for your room :gj:

try a different guage;)
I have had a couple acurites get stuck reading very high.

Have you tried using paper as a substrate?

I use paper towels as substrate for all my snakes except my hognose and my dumerils boa. I've used both the acurite and an analog humidity gauge and they both read high. I hardly most except for when one of them is in shed.

How much do dehumidifiers run?

I'll be moving to a new apartment in town next week so I'm gonna wait and see what the humidity situation is like over there before I make any purchases.


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High humidity is a pain but a dehumidifier seems the easiest solution. Maybe under fifty bucks at walgreens or riteaid. Make sure water is NOT over the heat pad. If it is ambient heat in the rack and not belly heat you are pretty much stuck getting a dehumidifier... Fortunately here in NY the humidity in the summer never really breaks 60-70 which I find is optimal and don't use anything other than water dishes. Good luck finding a helpful solution.

Put a fan in your room. Air current helps a lot.
But getting a dehumidifier is probably your best bet.

And even if your hygrometers read high, I wouldn't worry too much as long as there is no moisture sticking to the sides of the tubs. (But it sounds like there is moisture).

Id look for a dehumidifyer on craigslist first. Im sure theres someone getting rid of one for cheap.

The water dishes are at the cool ends of the tubs and there is heavy condensation on 2 of the 4 tubs in the rack. I'm going to add some more holes and look in to getting a dehumidifier.


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Water dishes are unnecessary I think if humidity is that high already

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Water dishes are unnecessary I think if humidity is that high already

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What is the snake going to drink from then?

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I'm in FL as well.

What is the temp on the hot side?

I have C-Serpent adult racks and set the thermostat till the hot side is 92F just as the thermostat kicks off- as measured with an IR gun right on the bottom of the tub (not the substrate). My cool side (front) is 84F and ambient is 82F. All water dishes are on the cold side. I use aspen bedding and noticed at first my humidity was high- like 80%, but no moisture on the tubs. I placed a hygrometer in each tub.... nothing fancy- just a $6 deal, and they are all consistent throughout the rack.

To lower the humidity to a reasonable 60-65% I left just a sifting of bedding in all the tubs and put twelve 1/2" holes around the sides and back of the tubs.... none in the front. This has worked well for me so far, and all sheds in one piece to date.

I have 3 babies in 10gal tanks with open screen tops and the hygrometers in those read 50% with a healthy layer of aspen, but with UTH's. Guess my house is 50% :)

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Water dishes are unnecessary I think if humidity is that high already

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:confusd::confusd::confusd:

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What is the snake going to drink from then?

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Pull a Bear Grylls and drink their own piss haha!

If you are getting condensation there must be a difference in room temp to rack temp. I would expect the rack to be the same RH as the room if this is the case there is no problem regardless of the RH. (also no condensation likely) higher amounts of ventilation will however equalize the temp to the room too. Either more ventilation in the tubs and or warmer room temps will also work.

I actually ran into this same problem yesterday morning. The humidity in my BP's tub was 99%. After much frustration, I found that it was actually due to the fact that I was using paper towels as my substrate. It turns out that the paper towels were soaking up and holding all of the excess water that dripped off of the water bowl after cleaning, and that is why the humidity was so frickin' high. I cleaned all of the water off of the sides of my tub, and put down newspaper as bedding, and the humidity dropped down to 65% after a few hours. I hope this helps!

I had this same problem with my RB rack. I live in Mississippi. I got mine down to 55-62 by keeping the water bowls filled 1/3 of the way. You might want to purchase some smaller bowls. I found that drilling/soldering more holes than 3 rows x20 does not make any difference. I learned this by messing up the first bin I was tweaking everything with.

Also, I turned my ceiling fan up to mid-high setting. If you don't have a ceiling fan you can buy a decent table top one from Wal-Mart for $15-20.

Doing all this brought my humidity down in the 70's.

The best purchase was this table top De-Humidifier. They can be expensive if you are needing to get the humidity down of an entire room. But, this works fine for 4-5 racks.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ls_o01_s00_i00

$40 Bucks and works awesome as well as being almost silent compared to a table top fan.

Well I live in Arizona so ya. Don't know if I could help other than I spritz every day or 2

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Water dishes are unnecessary I think if humidity is that high already

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How would you like to not have anything to drink????


To OP, don't know if more holes in your tub, or smaller water dishes might help?


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