Hi guys just wanted to get some feedback about the month into my first month of ownership of our new BP.


We have the Exo Terra 24 x 18 x 12 terrarium with Ecoearth substrate.


I use an ultratherm UTH with thermostat for warm side and CHE with Lutron dimmer for cool side with digital thermometer with humidity gauge built in.


My piebald has eaten like a champ taking the F/T rat pups fast every time, every week. I document everything just to keep record of his progress and how we are doing as owners. He weighed in at 245g about two weeks ago. He stays in his cool hide about 95% of the time every now and then I will catch them out in the middle of the night and a lot of times he's just poking his cute little head out looking around but stays in his little pyramid almost all the time.


His temps stay good at 90° / 80° pretty regularly but his humidity goes from 45% to maybe 50%. He had his first shed recently with one semi-big piece and a few small pieces and didn't quite shed completely all the way off and I tried to help him with soaking then a wet bag and it was a complete debacle he was stressed and it didn't help. So I put him back in the tank two days ago and went to feed him and he ate again great and I decided to let him be for a couple days.


I have aluminum foil almost completely covering the top but clearly my CHE is sucking all the moisture out of the tank. I can missed the area down like crazy substrate hide everything and the humidity will go up for an hour or so then come back down.


I feel like I'm doing a few things right but clearly his humidity is not high enough… I'm just not sure I want to turn around and drop another 300 on an animal plastics enclosure and heat set up just yet…Anything obvious I can do right off the bat to help him?