Humitity Levels

Hi guys and gals

This is just my 2nd post on here but just signed up yesterday, I have a question already. My humitity level in the rubbermaids seem to be way to high, im using UTH for my heating source, I would think some where between 50-60 would be ideal but im up in the 80's. My Temperature is bang on what it should be. Could adding some additional holes in the top of the rubbermaid help? Please all suggestions are welcomed.

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Sorry like I said only my 2nd post and I should add some additional information, The rubbermaid containers are 15q, they each have 2 hides one with moss as the base, and a large water dish in each one. I have holes in the side of the containers but none presently in the top. Hope this additional info helps a bit more.

maybe a smaller water dish? or more holes to vent more...



vaughn

Thanks for the help I will deff. try the smaller dish tomorrow.

More holes to increase ventilation, smaller water dish with less surface for evaporation, perhaps remove that moss if it's making the high humidity even worse. Also check the room the enclosure is in. What's the humidity that this enclosure is dealing with in that room? Sometimes it's a losing battle if you are trying to get a tub to 50% humidity in a room that's got little ventilation and is very humid in the summer.

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The room Humidity is at 45 right now and temperature is 78. I just added some holes and I will change the dish size in the am as the stores are clossed now. Thanks alot for your reply.

Adding more holes will help. How do you do it? I use a soldering "gun" and melt holes into the sides of the tub. Mine do not have lids because they are just slid into a rack shelf.
I wold try keeping the water dish away from the heating pad too.. seems like the heat underneath it would cause evaporation faster, maybe? I keep mine on the cooler side of the middle of each tub.
I am sure that by following this thread's advice, your humidity will be fine! And if you want to raise it later (as you should when the snake is going into a shed cycle with the blue eyes) you can easily put duct tape over the holes (stuck to the outside of the tub/lid of course, not inside!) and this will raise your humidity like a charm.

Thanks for the reply Jennifer, I have the dish in the far end from the heater, that was the first thing I tried...still to high...so I triedthe holes in the lid, and still at about 85...so now i reduced the water dish in size will see how that works. I use a high powered drill I have then sand any burs that remain, seems to work good for me. Again thanks for the reply.

And last but not least if that doesnt work then I will try what Joanna said about removing the moss. Lordy I hope something gets easier soon!

Remember as frustrating for you as this is, it's worse on your snake living through the tweaking of it's home. Personally if you are fighting this humidity issue so much I'd pull that moss, put down only some layers of plain white paper towel or newspaper as substrate, get a small water dish with little surface area (just grab something at the dollar store like a white ceramic ramekin for instance) and see how the tub settles out then. With this high humidity are you getting condensation anywhere on the tub lid?

It sounds like they are in a standard air-conditioned room. You should have no problem getting the humidity down by adding ventilation then. I think removing materials that retain water will help but you may find that the humidity becomes less stable because the amount of water that is exchanged with the outside environment each hour will be much larger relative to the total amount of water inside the enclosure. Conversely, larger amounts of these materials will make it more stable but then you will be forced to ventilate more to keep the humidity down. And, just to keep things exciting for you, additional ventilation will most likely make the temperatures less stable. If I've managed to make any sense here you'll see that there are some competing factors at play here and a bit of experimentation will probably be required to reach a happy medium.

Good luck.

Bearhart, thanks for the reply, I just got home from the bar and had to read that one more than once to understand it. :) I do understand everything your saying and thanks a ton. I finally got the temps and humitity to a reasonable medium that I will be happy with....so thank you all tonight for your knowledge. Man I love this fourm!

Talk to you all soon