Does he look ok? Still hasn't shed ??

[Smith123]

Yeah well it's all about weather my humidity unit is correct or not! As if I add a substrate like that I will no doubt get readings of 80% which is too high.... I'm going to pick up another humidity unit today so will find out later. I did have aspen down which the humidity reading was just the same, I only changed to paper towel as I didn't like him eating bits of aspen when stuck to the rat pup....

[ballpythonluvr]

Yeah well it's all about weather my humidity unit is correct or not! As if I add a substrate like that I will no doubt get readings of 80% which is too high.... I'm going to pick up another humidity unit today so will find out later. I did have aspen down which the humidity reading was just the same, I only changed to paper towel as I didn't like him eating bits of aspen when stuck to the rat pup....

You could always use the aspen bedding again. When you are going to feed your snake again just put some paper towels over the substrate to avoid the substrate going in the snake's mouth.

[Smith123]

The aspen didn't give any more humidity than paper towel so unless there any other reason to use it I will stick with kitchen roll....?

[Smith123]

I have just put a new humidity sensor in there cool end , same place as the suspected inaccurate one and they read identical ? So it seems my readings are accurate , after half an hour it settled at 57% exactly the same as the one I have been using. I've currently got it in the warm end to take a reading... So if we are agreed I don't have a humidity issue ?


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[Smith123]

Warm end settled, directly under heat source next to hot hide.... 48%... Which I think is fine as it's the hottest part and doesn't spend much time in there, plus it's not really a low reading ?



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[michaelt]

48% is low for a shed.. My snakes spend most of there time in the warm side hide which is 90 uth..

[Smith123]

That's just usual reading, I've been spraying during shed to raise it..... He currently taking a bath!

[influence]

I am using Kritter's Crumble and some misting on it will retain my humidity level.
But then again, i'm in Southeast Asia (Malaysia) and the ambient humidity averages around 70-80%.
i agree on the points given by the other members, try not using the overhead heating as it dries up the air more quickly.

[Smith123]

No choice!
unless I sacrifice temperature?
I really don't understand as far as all my research goes my humidity levels are within range.... These are not a tropical snake. Plus I have been misting just for good measure since in blue