Humidity problem

Hello...
I have been having serious problem with humidity and it is hovering at 35% no matter how I try to raise it up. I been looking at internet for some kind of misting system and found this,

http://www.petco.com/product/105899/...abba-Mist.aspx

Have anybody used it before and I would like have everybody opinion on it, that will be helpful!

Thanks

describe your enclosure and setup for us and maybe we can help out in that area first.

What kind of setup do you have? Most humidity issues are caused by folks with tanks not foil or plastic treating their screen lids. :)

If that's not the case for you, then blocking off more air holes (not all of course) and using a wider water dish helps. Also, for 'no other option' situations, there is a humidifier out there that's a LOT cheaper than the one you linked to... I just can't recall it now. :oops:

Okay, it is 20 Long, it have UTH on the right side of the tank. It have 2 Hides, couple of driftwood and large water tank in the middle of it. Hot side is 92 degrees and cold side is 81 degrees. I live in a location that are way cold and dry. My room is at 64 degree right now. The tank, admint (sp?) temperature is same as my room so I am trying to raise it up with a heat lamp. I think it is 60 watts red bulb. I also covered the screen top half with foil.

I can add the pictures if you guys would like to see.

Forgot to add that, I also use aspen bedding.

throw in some sphagnum moss and call it a day.

Glass tanks can be a pain for humidity and temp. My room temp sits at the exact same as urs 24/7 and benig in BC, humidity is not very high in our house. Try first of all insulating your tank with some of the hard pink styrofoam from home depot ($10) a sheet, this will allow you lower the heat demand and help frmo drying out the tank. Other options to help stricty with humidty;

1) spray often
2) larger water bowl
3)Water bowl over UTH (this can cause Bacteria growth though and will require more cleaning of the water dish and areas around it)
4) Hamster ball with moist paper towels inside Replace when they dry out)
5) replace your tinfoil on the screen lid with a wet rag or facecloth and keep it wet
6) Sphagnum moss (moss that can be picked up at most pet stores, is then wetted down to abosrb water and placed in the tank, can me used more than once but not forever)

I think thats all i got.

You could try a radiant heat panel: http://www.reptilebasics.com/RBI-Rad...p-1-c-283.html. They go at the top of the enclosure and really help to bump up the ambient temps without zapping the humidity.

I live in the high desert and we have no humidity. It is also cold. I have 6 RBI cages and have them all with RHP's. Works like a charm :)

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Originally Posted by ride_gnu

Glass tanks can be a pain for humidity and temp.
4) Hamster ball with moist paper towels inside Replace when they dry out)
5) replace your tinfoil on the screen lid with a wet rag or facecloth and keep it wet

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I'm pretty sure the two above steps aren't actually good ideas, as they harbor heaps of bacteria. Not 100% sure, but pretty sure :P

What I do is mist about twice daily with hot water - must be hot, because as you mist it, it cools down. Also, heat lamps zap moisture from the air so that's a big thing to have to get past, especially if the ambient air temp in your room is so low (omg i'd die in that, I keep my ambient room temp at 80 <3 my blanket is more just for cuddling than covering :D)

Cover the screen on your tank with foil, get some sphagnum moss, and mist if needed. That should pretty much do the trick.

OH, and there's also a substrate called Cypress Mulch that you could try too.

It could also be worth a try to cover half of the top with glad press and seal instead of tinfoil - you can really press it down on the screen top and it does a great job at helping me bump up the humidity in my glass tank.

Someone else mentioned it but it is worth mentioning again - go to teh hardwar store and get insulation and try putting that around the sides of your tank - that will help keep the ambient temps up and hopefully you will have to use your lamp less often, since they are murder on humidity.

The snake just needs somewhere to go to raise it's humidity when it is shedding. Make a humid hide.

Get a plastic container big enough for them to coil up in, and cut a hole (smooth any rough edges). Then put damp spagnum moss inside. Re-wet it every few days and you should be set. Works great......

The Habba mister is a fine product but it sprays water for animals that need more humidity than the 50-60% needed for ball pythons. I acquired one in a package deal and tried to find a use for it but couldn't.

Relative humidity here in Colorado can drop into the 20's for weeks so I use a $15 Tropicaire humidifier, seen here http://www.reptiledirect.com/tropica...gernopump.aspx. It pumps wet air instead of spraying water so you won't have wet substrate to deal with. You have to buy a seperate aquarium air pump but they're everywhere from $10-20. I put in on a timer and refill it with water every month or two.

Our BP's first shed took 5 soakings to remove. I installed this thing and every shed since then has been perfect.

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The snake just needs somewhere to go to raise it's humidity when it is shedding. Make a humid hide.

Get a plastic container big enough for them to coil up in, and cut a hole (smooth any rough edges). Then put damp spagnum moss inside. Re-wet it every few days and you should be set. Works great......

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Do you place the humid hide on the warm or cool side?

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Originally Posted by JenH

The snake just needs somewhere to go to raise it's humidity when it is shedding. Make a humid hide.

Get a plastic container big enough for them to coil up in, and cut a hole (smooth any rough edges). Then put damp spagnum moss inside. Re-wet it every few days and you should be set. Works great......

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but what if it doesnt go in there while its in shed...?

you need to have a proper relative humidity inside the enclosure with ball pythons.

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Originally Posted by ride_gnu

Do you place the humid hide on the warm or cool side?

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If you need a bump, you'd put some moss in both of the hides.

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Originally Posted by bigballs

but what if it doesnt go in there while its in shed...?

you need to have a proper relative humidity inside the enclosure with ball pythons.

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Absolutely. And because the OP said that the humidity was always low, simply making a humid hide for shedding purposes would not work :)

I finally got my humidity stabilized at 50%! I've been battling this same problem for 3 weeks - can't get humidity past the 35% mark... I have a 55 gallon glass exo-terra tank with UTH and ceramic heat lamp and big waterbowl.

I did trial and error until I finally got it stabilized. This is what I did:

1.) I put tin-foil on 2/3 of the top screen and taped it down with duct tape (I use duct tape on anything that needs sticking). I had to get a rheostat for my lamp because with the foil, it made the ambient temperature too high, so I had to tone it down some.
2.) I put half of the water bowl on top of the UTH
3.) Replaced the aspen bedding with cypress bedding
4.) Used a mister when I wake up and before dinner. This is the mister I used:
http://www.petsmart.com/product/inde...t8RmTTXmp2x2eQ
There's a junior version which is 10 bucks cheaper but I got this one because it produces a finer mist. I know the review isn't that great - but I never had problems assembling the stuff. And, I didn't expect the thing to be an "automatic" mister... you can't have an automatic something without some kind of motor, duh!

I have to say, the biggest factor was the cypress bedding. Without it, the misting only keeps the humidity stable for an hour or so.

I tried the damp towel on top of the screen, but after 2 days it started to smell moldy, so I took that out. I tried the hamster ball with wet paper towels in it and it raised humidity by 5%. After I got the cypress bedding, I didn't need to use the hamster ball to keep it at 50%.

I also have a rock hide with spagnum moss in it. When I mist, I mist in there as well, so it remains slightly damp in there. My bp doesn't go in there much, though. He likes just hiding behind the rock (I have lots of plastic vegetation and aquarium decor around it, since I got a really big tank, my bp finds all these hiding spots that were not intended as "hides").

Maybe this will help.