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    Question Any clever ideas to keep humidity up?

    the average humidity in my house is about 30-35% and it seems like every 30 minutes i have to take a squirt bottle to my BPs enclosure and it’s starting to get annoying. Any tips on how to keep it between 50-60? I use Eco-Earth substrate and i’ve started to put rags over her water bowl to trap in any humidity i can but nothing seems to be working. Would adding more substrate work? Can i put a humidifier in my room? Plz help

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    Re: Any clever ideas to keep humidity up?

    We will need a bit more details.. what type of enclosure, PVC, wood, glass, how are you heating it, how are you measuring it, thermostat, the more info and pictures help a lot that you give the better advice we can hand back.
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    Re: Any clever ideas to keep humidity up?

    I use a 40 breeder glass habitat and heat it with 100 watt day and night bulbs. I realize the hot bulbs dont help with humidity but i’m too nervous to invest in a heat pad. I measure both temp and humidity with analog gauges (from Petco)

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    Re: Any clever ideas to keep humidity up?

    Quote Originally Posted by Steelers_Republic View Post
    I use a 40 breeder glass habitat and heat it with 100 watt day and night bulbs. I realize the hot bulbs dont help with humidity but i’m too nervous to invest in a heat pad. I measure both temp and humidity with analog gauges (from Petco)
    Im happy to help you out.

    Just for curiosity, why are you nervous to invest Ina heat pad?

    Are your lights regulated by a thermostat?

    Unfortunately, those analog thermometer/hygrometers are wildly inaccurate. They can be off by as much as 15° or 15%. It's definitely worth picking up a few digitals.

    For keeping humidity up in glass it's very important to cover the screen top. I actually wrap my glass enclosures in 1/2" foam board insulation. I cover the top, back and sides. This helps immensely with heat and humidity control. I live in MA and winters here get cold and dry. Since I started insulating the enclosures I never need to mist anymore, maybe when they're in shed to bump humidity, but not in general.

    In a 40 breeder you've definitely got room to add a few more water bowls too.

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    Re: Any clever ideas to keep humidity up?

    The horror stories of people accidentally cooking their snake with heat pads make me nervous to get one. I know you can regulate the temps of the pads with thermostats but with the stand i have it would allow for 0 ventilation.

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    Re: Any clever ideas to keep humidity up?

    The heat mats generally come with rubber feet to put on the bottom of your enclosure to ensure theres ventilation.


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    Re: Any clever ideas to keep humidity up?

    Quote Originally Posted by oropher101 View Post
    The heat mats generally come with rubber feet to put on the bottom of your enclosure to ensure theres ventilation.


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    I have a 20 long glass tank with a screen top. I went to lowes and had them cut a piece of plexiglass that covers about 90% of the top. I use forest floor bedding and when I put new bedding in it will spike to 80%, I just slide the plexi glass forward a few inches to allow more ventilation. When it gets where I want I just cover it back up. I also bought a $2.00 cabinet knob and pur it in the middle of the plexiglass so I can left it and move it easily. When I first set the tank up I only spot cleaned the first month and after four weeks the humidity was still staying over 50%, after four weeks I completely changed it out so right now it's sitting at about 70%.

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    Re: Any clever ideas to keep humidity up?

    I forgot the pic.


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    Dry eco earth is hydrophobic. If you are having problems with humidity, try mixing the ecoearth with water just before putting it in the enclosure, but make sure it isn't saturated with water. It should be about as damp as a well-wrung dishrag.

    Buying the compressed bricks of ecoearth and preparing it per the instructions is an easy way to get the water-eco earth ratio pretty close on the first try.

    I don't like restricting air flow too much in my enclosure. Stagnant air, like stagnant water, is a recipe for bacterial growth, mold, and potential RIs. Humidity will readily diffuse throughout the atmosphere, its physics. What is important is what the relative humidity is where your snake spends most of their time.

    If you are dampening your substrate, while not making it too damp and risking scale rot, it will be pretty humid just above the substrate as the humidity is leeched out of the substrate and into the atmosphere. ( Like a freshly dug into mulch pile.) Most humidity probes don't read accurately if they are actually touching the substrate, but make sure the probe is pretty darn close.
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