keeping humidity up on newspaper

[joshthaxton]

For those of you out there that keep your BPs on newspaper, (in tubs or whatever) how do you keep the humidity up? Do you just mist the newspaper? I mean I thought about that but I figured it kinda defeated the purpose.

[kc261]

All of my BP enclosures use newspaper, and do not require misting to keep the humidity up. Most are in tubs, one is in a 20L tank. It is a matter of finding the right combination of the size of water bowl (surface area is what counts) and the amount of air circulation.

The one in the tank does need her humidity bumped up a bit when she is in shed. If I don't bump it up, she'll get it all off, but in pieces. What I do is I take the fake foliage in her tank, run a little water over it, shake off excess so it is not dripping, and put it back in the tank. This is probably roughly the same as misting as far as adding lots of droplets of water that will evaporate and up the humidity. However, I figure misting newspaper would quickly make it start falling apart, and this keeps the water off the newspaper for the most part. After the shed, I wash the foliage in case any bacteria or anything started growing while it was damp.

Other things that work is adding a humid hide, or adding damp moss or paper towels in one of your existing hides. You can also put the damp moss or paper towels elsewhere in the tank, but I think it is probably more effective in the hide where the humidity won't escape as fast and that is where the snake is anyway.

[PigsnPythons]

All of my BPs are in tubs in a rack. I don't need to do anything to the newspaper to keep the humidity up. At one point, I started having bad sheds, so I taped off a few of the holes in my tubs, and now everything is back to normal.