Humidity TOO high

I have my baby Red Tail in a 20qt/19L Sterilite rubber storage box. Now i have about 20 or so holes throughout it including the lid. A small heating pad mounted on the side and a small water dish among other things. I had a humidifier hooked up to it but my humidity was at 80% so i took it out and now it's lingering above 70%.. I wanted to know how could i possibly get the humidity down without having to drill anymore holes? because it doesn't seem like it's making much of a difference.

Drill more holes.

:)

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Do you suggest more holes in the tops or sides.. please please please don't say both.

What's so bad about drilling holes? You need a new drill or something?

Top holes let more humidity out.

Don't know exactly what your setup is, but you could move your water bowl all the way away from the hot spot, if it's not already. Try putting the water dish the furthest away from the UTH.

....oh, and drill more holes :) :)

nah, it's 11:30 at night i don't think my parents would appreciate me using a drill.. i'm using a knife and it's killing my hands.

Alright so i made about 10 more holes and widened the existing ones. let's see what happens.

Oh, and thanks for all the help so far :)

A knife? Sheesh.. no wonder. lol

Nope, still at 70%.

Would i be wrong to assume that anything above 70 is dangerous and that 70 percent is alright, not the best, but alright?

what type of substrate are you using?

a layer of coconut bark on top of some newspaper.

How does the coconut bark feel (i.e. is it damp?)? Because the humidifier got your enclosure to such a high humidity, the bark may have absorbed alot of moisture. It may take a while for the moisture to evaporate out of the bark and lower the humidity. I would just keep an eye on the humidity....if that is the case, it will probably drop by the morning. If the problem persists tomorrow evening, I would do away with the bark and just use the newspaper...that should knock down the humidity a good bit.

Is that coconut "husk"...man that stuff is a pain. Throw it out. Junk. Use Repti-Bark or Forest Floor if you want a substrate. Red Tails do better on newspaper or paper towels. I use old hand towels and such and just switch'em out and reuse them.

The absolute easiest thing to put holes in sterlite is a soldering wand. We got ours from WalMart for $10.00. Just use it in a well ventilated area.

You might try finding out what the humidity is in the room the snake is in. If that room is very humid or has really poor air exchange it just makes sense that it's going to be extremely difficult to get your sterlite's humidity down to 50 to 60% if the room itself is sitting way higher than that. That's the first thing I'd look at and see if you may need to adjust the room itself or move the snake's tub elsewhere.

Also try going with just newspaper for a few days and see what difference it makes. Depending on how deep your substrate is you might want to turn it over a bit as it makes sense that if it's really deep it could feel dry on top but actually be trapping a fair bit of moisture down deeper.


~~Jo~~