I just recently moved my yearling BP into a 40 gallon breeder tank. His temps are 90-88 on the hot side, and 80-75 on the cool side (there's a big gap since its such a big tank, but I'm working on it.) He's on aspen bedding. I've been having trouble keeping the humidity up, so I put in a humid hide in the middle for him. He's also got a large water bowl on the cool end that he can soak in, though I've never seen him soak. But he has been spending a lot of time in the humid hide since I put it in there for him.

Now for my question: I took him out today and I noticed that his belly scales are really rough and dry feeling. He just shed about a week ago, and it was a complete shed, no problems there. So, I'm trying to figure out why his belly scales are so rough and dry. Any ideas? Anything I'm doing wrong that I should correct?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!