Ok, as I stated before, when the humidity drops below 50 I'll fog it. This takes about a day. I fog to 85 because it drops ten percent in ten minutes or less. I think you mis understood what I meant. I was misting 4 plus times when I was running 2 lights with an open top. Now I have the top sealed up just enough that it holds heat with just one light at a time, thus not baking my mulch until its dry as a popcorn fart. If I wanted I could get the same result in humidity by one good spraying in the morning. The fogger simply lets me do it without taking the lid off. As far as the day/night temperature cycle, all the books, caresheets etc. that I've read said twelve on twelve off. Change to sixteen on, eight off to trick them into breeding. Everything I've read also said a gradient of 80 to 90. The reading of 95 is right under the lamp. Inside the snakes warm hide I'm guessing its just right because she has a warm and a cool hide, and she favors the warm one throughout the day. She doesn't cruise around restless. And that at night the temp can drop to around 75 as long as a basking spot of 80 to 85 is available. I'll check my research again, but please don't think I just went out and bought a bunch of neat looking stuff without careful thought about how it would all work together to create a mini habitat. I looked at the t1 you suggested and I'm sorry but I love looking at my snake in a somewhat natural setting too much to just put it in a black plastic box or a tote or anything like that. I realize a lot of folks on here use these, but I can't bring myself to put such a pretty animal in something like that as if it was extra blankets or christmas decorations or something. In my humble opinion if you are gonna keep an animal captive, the least you can do is give it an enclosure that mimics its natural habitat as closely as humanly possible. That is what I'm aiming for.
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