Humidity Problems

[martin82531]

That had some really useful information, I just learned a lot from that! But if UTH's just heat the bottom of the tank, isn't ambient temperature what you're shooting for when creating a hot side for your python?

The hot spot is going to come from either a UTH or Heat Lamp. UTH is preferred and UTH won't effect your humidity. I had my heat lamp on the same side as my UTH. This gave me a perfect hot side and has the heat dissipated, gave me a perfect cool side of 80 degrees. I found this on another site, I used this when setting up my cage. The only difference is my water dish was in the middle.

[martin82531]

So you essentially made your screen top tank into a temporary screen top?

Yep

[martin82531]

double post

[EntertheWutang]

No, the air in the cage can stay around 80 on both sides, (75 at the lowest) and just have a hot spot on the floor of the cage around 90.

Oh okay cool, I did not know that! Thank you. That is going to help tremendously cause I'm almost positive that my basking bulb is baking the cypress mulch haha. Thank you guys! You guys really know what you're talking about.

[martin82531]

I bought a white dish towel to place over just so it looked a little nicer.

Wife wasn't too thrilled about using the pillow cases either lol...but it looked decent so she didn't mind too much.

[EntertheWutang]

What made you use a UTH and a heat lamp?

[martin82531]

What made you use a UTH and a heat lamp?

We run our AC pretty cool, I was aiming for the 80 degree marker for the overall ambient temp, the heat lamp helped with this. But only because it was on a thermostat, it was on a dimmer before. A dimmer will work but just more of a manual process to keep it adjusted accordingly.

[EntertheWutang]

Oh okay gotcha! At night when I shut everything off I have the ceiling fan in my room on high and it gets down to about

[EntertheWutang]

78-79, so assuming I shut off the fan I think it wild he perfectly around 80!

[EntertheWutang]

(During the day that is