Help with High Humidity???

I have a reptile basics rack and am having trouble with my humidity being to high.
I can not get my humidity below 78%. I have a water bowl in the tubs with paper substate. I have holes in the front and sides of my tubs.
My temps are perfect. 91.8 on the warm side and 81 on the cool side.
Will it help bring the humidity down if I put more holes in my tubs? I'm afraid to put to many though, because I don't want it to screw up my tempatures.

If I keep it at 78% will this cause problems?

Thanks for the help!

Too high humidity can cause problems, it can wet the substrate which can cause belly and scale rot and other unpleasantness.

-move the water bowl off the heat source if you haven't already.
-check to make sure your snake hasn't urinated since that will send the humidity skyrocketing
-put more holes in tubs.

also can try a smaller waterbowl, move he heat source ( if not fasten down ) to the end of he tub ( this will cause a smaller warm area that may help lower he humidty too) more hold and if you find you placed to many a piece of scotch tape over the holes ( on utside) will seal the tub holes back up..

Ok, I will try more holes and use less water in the water bowl. The substrate is dry, dry. I check it everyday and change it if it is soiled. I can't change the heat source. It is flexwatt and is in the groove of the rack. Thanks for the help.

If you have a thermostat on your flex tape you should be fine drilling more holes. just start out with one at a time and go from there. also if you can put your holes low that even helps more as humid air settles/sinks and will flow out with a low placed hole/s

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Originally Posted by spiderfan

If you have a thermostat on your flex tape you should be fine drilling more holes. just start out with one at a time and go from there. also if you can put your holes low that even helps more as humid air settles/sinks and will flow out with a low placed hole/s

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just make sure they arent so low that if a snake decides to take a very accurately placed pee, that urine falls out (eww) :)

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Not sure which rack you have but I have the CB70 one and on those you can leave the tub pulled forward so it's tight against that little pin you use to keep the tubs in place. When it's forward against the pin, there is a little gap at the front of the tub that adds ventilation. If I leave the tub forward, I keep my humidity around 55% (I keep my water bowls at the very front of the tub). During sheds, I push the tub all the way to the back and the humidity goes up to ~68%. It's a very easy way to keep the humidity levels where you need them.

Good luck!

Thanx for all the help. I have tried all the above and my humidity is still at 74%!!!! I have more than doubled the holes in the tub, moved the water dish to the front and taken some water out. What else should I do???? How bad is 74% if the substrate is not wet. Will it cause a RI or anything? All the snakes in the rack are eating and seem healthy.

What are you measuring humidity with?

A digital humidity gauge. Also reads temps. I have put 2 in the tubs to compare and they are both reading around the same.

Hi,

I just re-read the thread and noticed you said you removed some of the water from the bowl.

That won't help with the humidity though as it is the amount of water surface that affects that not the water depth - try using a bowl with a smaller surface area instead and see if that helps.


dr del

Gotcha, I will try that instead. I do have a pretty big water dish. Thank you all!!!!

I'm curious if any of the suggestions here worked? I recently set up a tub for a rescue BP and I cannot lower the humidity as well. This tub is not in a rack, just a stand alone tub with a lid. I have holes on all four sides, will add more holes if I need to, maybe lower on the sides as suggested above? This is the exact opposite problem I've had with glass tanks.

I've got a few reptile basics racks and I was having issues with the very top tubs in the stack getting WAY too humid like 80-90% but I switched out the bowls for some fairly small ones, changed the substrate to the chipped aspen instead of the shredded stuff and put more holes in there.

Also, you may want to look at the humidity in the room. I've found that the RBI racks tend to hold about 30% more humidity than the RAH in the room so I occassionaly have to run a dehumidifier in the room if it gets above 30-35%.