My humidity just wont go down 80%!

[theartofsolitude]

i'm using a 25qt sterilite and my humidity just wont go down 80%.

i have very few water left on the bowl but a bit above 80%!

i have holes all over the sides do i need to punch holes on the cover too?

[llovelace]

Yes you may have to solder some holes in the lid.

[Quiet Tempest]

What kind of substrate are you using?

[theartofsolitude]

actually i'm just using newspapers..

[llovelace]

Just add more holes, if you don't want to change your liners to aspen. 10-15 holes in the lid to start should do the trick. I'm in a hunid state to begin with each of my 28qt tubs have over 300 holes in them

[kb1290]

I just had the same problem on a 6qt tub that I had 5 holes on each side and the lid. I made it 9 holes in the lid(3 rows of 3) about 1/4" in diameter and that did the trick.

[mozbink]

i'm using a 25qt sterilite and my humidity just wont go down 80%.

i have very few water left on the bowl but a bit above 80%!

i have holes all over the sides do i need to punch holes on the cover too?

I had same problem. Mine would stay at 83 percent. Didnt matter with Aspen, Newspaper or paper towels. I even had a lid with holes and plenty of holes on the side. Nothing mattered.

I then researched here and was told I was golden. That having 83 percent humidity would not be a problem and that I didnt need to do anything unless the humidity got so high that there was condensation showing up on the tub.

When I needed to lower humidity though I had to turn on my ceiling fan. That was the only thing that lowered it. Extra holes, holes in the top different substrate nothing else would lower it.

I currently maintain 73 percent with my fan set at low, but I kept it for weeks and weeks at 83 and based on what I was told here, it would have been fine.

[Gloryhound]

I know up here in Ohio if I try to just use the hole punching method in the tubs I end up having to tape most shut sometime during the fall and open them up in the spring. Now I just use a humidifier and dehumidifier. Have them set up on humidistats that turn the humidifier on at 50% then back off at 60% and a dehumidifier that turns on around 75% and turns off at 65%. Now year around the humidity in my snake room is constant. Granted if you only keep a couple snakes and don't have a whole room dedicated to them taping holes shut during some seasons and opening them in others might be a better way to go. Granted the humidity up here next to the lake is over 80% on some days outside and under 10% during the coldest part of winter.

[Eulogy13]

try cutting a 1/4 of the lid out and replacing it with screen