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Suddenly my humidity is spiking???????
So I've kept my BP in a 37 qt sterilite gasket tub, kept on the ground for the past 2 months. Humidity was always perf.
Suddenly I bought a shelving unit (because BPs are like potato chips, can't have only one), and I put his tub on the top shelf, and suddenly the humidity is reaching 90%? What gives???
This is the shelving unit I got :https://www.amazon.com/Honey-Can-Do-...ay&sr=8-4&th=1
I will say he is vertically closer to a window now. He's in the same spot as he's always been, just higher up.
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Humidity is impacted by air flow a lot. Is the tub covered the same as it was before? For instance, if the tub had a snap on lid before that was not air tight but then you moved the tub to a tight fit rack enclosure where it makes the tub more air tight, that decrease in air flow will definitely increase the humidity. The way to lower humidity is add more air flow, you can do this by adding some small holes in the tub but only do a little at a time because if you add too much air flow it will become difficult to keep the humidity high enough. Good luck!
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Everything is exactly the same, only now his tub is higher up, on a shelving unit.
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Unlike temperatures humidity is never a constant and can be influenced by many thing.
Airflow
Recent Urination
Water Bowl Size
Substrate
Weather
Area you live in
So it can easily change go up and down which is why many have to adjust based on the time of the year for example.
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How much humidity would be too much for a BP. We will be going into Summer here from December and normal natural Humidity where I live will average 80 to 87 percent.
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Re: Suddenly my humidity is spiking???????
Originally Posted by Reptilius
How much humidity would be too much for a BP. We will be going into Summer here from December and normal natural Humidity where I live will average 80 to 87 percent.
The goal for a BP is about 60% humidity. However, although here in the USA, especially in the winter, many parts of the country suffer dry spells and BP's can get RI's, they can get those from humidity that is too high as well.
I would say a safe range (with ups and downs during the year) is 50%-70%. 80-87% for a day or two in shed might be okay, but not all summer. That's too high.
You will want air movement and/or a heating element that drys things out. I would also recommend paper as substrate when humidity gets high as it doesn't retain much of the humidity.
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A box fan or an adjustable one pointed toward your shelves aught to fix things
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Re: Suddenly my humidity is spiking???????
Originally Posted by Reptilius
How much humidity would be too much for a BP. We will be going into Summer here from December and normal natural Humidity where I live will average 80 to 87 percent.
60% would be as high as I want to see it for extended period of time, realistically I like to see humidity at about 40%/50% unless in shed.
Last edited by Stewart_Reptiles; 09-21-2019 at 10:56 AM.
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Re: Suddenly my humidity is spiking???????
Originally Posted by Stewart_Reptiles
60% would be as high as I want to see it for extended period of time, realistically I like to see humidity at about 40%/50% unless in shed.
What should it be at during shed? You said 60% for extended but would you go higher for shed like 70% when they are in blue? Or is 60% the highest we should go even during shed. Like what you said about 40-50 %. But was wanting to know the mark you aim for during shed? Sorry if this is a stupid question.
Thank You Deborah.
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Re: Suddenly my humidity is spiking???????
Originally Posted by rufretic
Humidity is impacted by air flow a lot. Is the tub covered the same as it was before? For instance, if the tub had a snap on lid before that was not air tight but then you moved the tub to a tight fit rack enclosure where it makes the tub more air tight, that decrease in air flow will definitely increase the humidity. The way to lower humidity is add more air flow, you can do this by adding some small holes in the tub but only do a little at a time because if you add too much air flow it will become difficult to keep the humidity high enough. Good luck!
I have a tank which means high humidity is not a problem, it's vice versa. But when I used a plastic tote I had 3 rows of quarter inch holes on on all 4 sides. You can have plenty of holes if you cover them up with tape (ON THE OUTSIDE OF COURSE) when the humidity gets too low. And you un-cover the holes when the humidity is too high. 3M (3350) tape works good for this or maybe even duct tape.
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