Place for humidity box

[Jonny Doum]

My ball just got over a yeast infection due to the humidity being too high. The vet had me soak him in some solution for a week. So that I don't have to spray the tank and soak the bottom, I bought a snake cave with moss so I can give him a humidity box.

My question is, should this go on the warm side or the cool side? Also, is it too soon to put one in after he just got over an illness from humidity being too high?

[dr del]

Hi,

I always offer humid hides as an extra hide not a replacement so it usually ends up going somewhere in the middle.

To avoid problems make sure you keep it humid in there but never wet - the moss only really needs to be damp.

If you post a couple fo shots of your set up (or describe it ) we might be able to find ways to help with the humidity that do not require a humid hide.


dr del

[Jonny Doum]

Thank you. I need to find my camera to take some pictures, and I will post them then. He still has a few little specks of orange from the infection, so I'm not sure if its wise to put the humidity hide in yet, or if I should wait. He has two hides in there right now, and a large water bowl underneath the heat light. the tank is this :

30 gallon

from left to right

Cool side has a hide, then there is a plastic tree that leads up to a basking area. underneath the basking branch is the water bowl that is about 1/3 on the heat pad. over the heat pad there is another hide. It is kind of compact and I don't know if there is room for a humidity/snake cave without replacing one of the other hides.

[MarkS]

That's the first time I've ever heard of a snake with a yeast infection. Are you sure that's what it was?

I put humid hide boxes, when I use them, half on and half off the heat tape. Ball pythons in the wild are found in holes where the humidity is usually up over 90 percent, but you do NOT want them sitting on a damp surface. Use some kind of material in the box that will hold moisture but feels dry on the upper surface. Packed sphagnum moss or cypress mulch works well for this.

I'm betting that what you actually had was some kind of belly/scale bacterial infection caused by laying on a wet surface which doesn't have that much to do with the amount of humidity in the air.

[Jonny Doum]

I don't know, I took him to the vet. The vet took a scraping from under one of the scales (rust colored scraping), examined it under a microscope and said that it was a standard yeast infection because of too much moisture. I know that it was too moist in there, I had a fogger that went off on a timer to keep humidity where it needed to be, but this was a disaster.

The vet told me to soak him twice a day (every 12 hours) in a blue solution mixed with water for a week. It is almost all gone, and I don't want to over due it by continuing to soak him. I just don't want to put the humidity box in if it will be detrimental to the healing process.

[MarkS]

You really don't NEED a humid hide box. The only times I use one is when I have a snake with a history of bad sheds.