I also have a mesh top and had problems with keeping humidity up. I followed the directions in this tutorial and it worked like a charm:

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ight=duct+tape

I will say that after the shed its been tough to get the humidity down. I keep enlarging the hole in the duct tape and its helping but I am finding I'll need to open a very large hole in order for the humidity to fall sufficiently.

I plan to use a sheet of plastic to insert in between the mesh and the hole to increase the humidity during the next shed.


Quote Originally Posted by withonor View Post
This question bothers me a little. I've had my python, which is about 4 years old, for two weeks now. When I first adopted him I thought, "Wow, that is an awesome animal." As I have read more here and observed him more I think he has a couple places of old shed stuck (About 4 scales total) and his eyes (One or both, can't recall now) have a wrinkle which made me think he was shedding, but I think those may have been old. I know how much effort I am putting into keeping his humidity up for this shed, his eyes are opaque blue now, and I don't see that happening with his last owners.

To keep the humidity up I have put a wet wash cloth over the screen and placed aluminum foil over that, but thats not enough. To his disliking I mist his cage, and he hisses inside his hide so I wait till humidity falls below 55% to reduce the stress as much as possible. His hissing started and increased as his eyes got more opaque, which is understandable. I went to a reptile store but they didn't have spagnum moss, just some live moss and others that appeared to be geared more towards lizards. This store did however have a huge variety of snakes, lizards and turtles.