Humidity way too high

Yeah...I feel like a n00b. All the research I've done and I don't think it's gonna help me now. I just got my baby ball Tuesday, and since then I've been fighting with high humidity. Yesterday it was 80% humidity outside, so of course in my tank humidity was around the high 70's, which is a no-no during non-shed times. Anyway, I just checked now, and the humidity still hasn't dropped any. It's currently at 77% humidity. I'm afraid if it goes on for another day I might have an RI on my hands. I just shut my window in my room hoping it'd stop all that humidity coming in, and just left a fan circulating air in my room, hoping it'd lower the humidity. I'll wait until tommorrow, and if the humidity doesn't drop, I'm thinking of putting in a small air conditioner we have spare. It's a small little ac. It shouldn't affect my temps much since currently I'm easily getting 93 degrees and 83 degrees. I'm not worried about that much anyway, because I probably won't be running it for too long. The idea is to air out my room and cool it down enough so the humidity lowers. Here's where you people come in(yes there was a reason to this topic)..do you think running an AC for a bit will help lower the humidity? I'm stressed out so much..can't sleep. I'm afraid I've just got my ball and I'll already have an RI on my hands...which I currently can't afford to have. :cry: Any help or ideas to lower the humidity would be hugely appreciated.

running an ac in the room will lower humidity. if the whole house has ac i would run that also. dropping the house temps around mid 70's with ac will lower the humidity.

thanks

vaughn

What he said. :)

i live on the coast in georgia, where is stays pretty humid year round. when i first got my bp i actually had trouble keeping my humidity high enough because i run the ac in my apartment. they do wonders for taking the moisture out of the air. :D

Hahaha, oh my God I feel like such a n00b. The digital thermometers I use aren't acurite, so I have an acurite knockoff(with only one temp reading...choice of reading it from probe or base) and humidity. Then I bought a second little thermometer for just the cool side. Well I assumed that humidity was taken from probe. I was wrong. I was wondering why everytime I move the base unit(I have them on the outside to read easily..probes on inside) the humidity would change. So then I thought "duh...maybe it's read from the base" so I blew on it, and it spiked to over 95%. So I crossed my fingers, and placed the base in the tank. 5 minutes later it went down to 60%. Problem solved!! :D So all along the humidity was fine at 60 in the tank. It's just my room thats in the 70's. Big d'oh! for me. :oops:

well hey, i'm glad at least that you got it figured out and everything is right where it is supposed to be. :wink:

Right up there on the list of easiest fixes ever. :)

I don't think that 80% humidity is anything to lose sleep over. As long as the substrate isn't damp and your temps are where they should be, you should be fine. All of us glass aquarium owners struggle to get it up to 70% during shed times.

I think I'll be fine. Ever since I put the thermometer base in the tank, I've been at a steady 60%, sometimes dropping a bit to 55. Then when I spray the reptibark down a bit, it goes up to 75% and stays there for quite a while. A month ago when I was getting my tank together, I cut a piece of cardboard to size, cut a hole big enough for the lamp if I need to use it, and fastened it to the inside(prevents noserubs :)) of the tank top with twisty ties. That seems to hold humidity in well. Around shed time, if I get tired of misting a few times a day, I might just get some sphagnum moss, and put some in the cage here and there.

I don't have any windows open, only central AC and my humidity is around 55-60 in the rubbermaid.

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A month ago when I was getting my tank together, I cut a piece of cardboard to size, cut a hole big enough for the lamp if I need to use it, and fastened it to the inside(prevents noserubs :)) of the tank top with twisty ties.

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be careful with that cardboard--it could get moldy really fast if it gets wet from misting or anything else. i'd just go with the saran wrap method if i were you. i covered my screen top on both the inside and the outside with contact paper--that way the humidity is held in and nose rub is prevented at the same time.

Yeah I was thinking of the mold thing with cardboard too. I think in a few weeks when I clean out the cage a bit I'm gonna wrap the cardboard with saran wrap or something. I tried saran wrap a while ago on the screen top, and it was just a mess for me. Guess I'm not co-ordinated enough to do it, lol. So do you think just wrapping the cardboard with saran wrap good will keep mold out? I don't mist much anyway. I just spritz the reptibark down a bit when I need a bit of a humidity boost.

i use contact paper rather than saran wrap--it's thicker and easier to work with, plus it's already sticky on one side so you don't have to use tape or anything. you could wrap the cardboard with the saran wrap but it might just turn into a mess for you again. have you thought about going somewhere like home depot and having a piece of plexi glass cut to fit the top of your enclosure? that might be a nice and neat solution for you.

Well, if my local home hardware can do that for me, I might do it. But if I have to take a drive up to Windsor(2 hour drive) to a Home Depot..most likely not. I'll think of something. I'm not gonna let my cage get all moldy with my poor Pelota in it. :) Tommorrow I'm going out for some mousicles, so I might swing by the dollar store and get a roll of contact paper. Sounds like it'd be easier for me. :)

You can also use duct tape making sure to cover the top and bottom. Some don't like it because if not properly adhered it can come loose and possibly get stuck on your snake. If you check it often to make sure it's staying on, then you shouldn't have a problem with it.