Hello all,

About a week ago both my corn and my ball got moved into these great 27qt sterilite tubs (they are around 5.5" tall) that I got for $5.79 a piece. Really good deal and perfectly sized tubs! I figure I may have to move Caspie to a slightly larger tub when she grows a bit more (she's around 3 feet long now) but for now it seems perfect for her.

Anywho. A couple days afterwards, the humidity really was spiking. Both of their tanks were around 85% humidity on their Acu-rites. I thought, maybe I spilled water in their tubs, or maybe they urinated, or something - so to be sure I stripped both of their tanks and made sure their water bowls were on the cool side. The next day the humidity was still around 85% - no change.

So yesterday I drilled a LOT more holes in the top and sides of their tubs to allow more air exchange. This helped, and now their humidity levels are around 75%. However this is still too high, and I'm just afraid of bad sheds/scale rot/URI's that can come from this. Can anybody give me a good way to lower humidity? Or should I just keep drilling a million holes? It just seems silly and I can't recall seeing anybody's tubs looking like swiss cheese.

Also, some good info to know: BP's substrate is newspaper, and corn's substrate is aspen. BP temps are in upper 80's on hot side, corns are in lower 80's on hot side. Both have water bowls that are on the cool side. Both are on flexwatt that covers around half of the tubs, which are controlled by Ranco thermostats...