happy Monday all!

Saturday was a week that I have had my very first BP! She is a beautiful albino named Luna. The first few days of setting up my enclosure prior to getting her I was having major humidity issues. I am using cypress mulch for the substrate and when I first laid it in the enclosure it sky rocketed my humidity. The night before getting Luna I spent about 3 hours baking the substrate to get the moisture out. Humidity was still a bit high when I left to go pick her up, so I pulled all my substrate out on the hot side, pushed over all the substrate from the cool side and laid paper towels down on the cool side. I had about 2 or 3 days of decent humidity.

I was never able to get a constant humidity through out the entire enclosure (90.7 temp and low 50 humidity on the hot side and 82 temp and high 50s on the cool side). I was worried about the gradient at first, but was reassured it was ok.

Now I'm having issues keeping the humidity up. It's kind of frustrating after spending quite a bit of money on an enclosure that I read nothing but amazing stories on. My humidity at it's best on the hot side is about 48 and at best on the cool side is about 53. I spray the hot side Constantly. I want my humidity to come up about 5-7% on the hot side.

How do I do that?? There Has to be something I can do other than misting multiple times a day. The only thing I can think is that the humidity in the room itself is too low. The temp in the room is almost a constant 74-77, but the humidity is around 25-35. Would a humidifier in the room help with the enclosure?