Hello all, found this forum due to our young BP having problems with her shed.

A little back story:
We bought her back in Christmas for our 13 year old son who loves anything that slithers, creeps, and crawls.

We bought this 'all in one' kit http://www.petsmart.com/product/inde...AvailInUS%2FNo
and set it up according to the included directions.
We kept the humidity as close to 40% as we could, usually it averaged closer to 30 to 35%. The temps under the hot side hide were 88-95 when I used my temp gun. The ambient temp in the tank is 76+/- when the day light heat lamp was on, and it would drop down to 68-70 at night when the light was off.
She has never had a problem with eating, very content to be held, and all around just a great experience.

Then her shed arrived......

We let her do her thing during the shed. We didn't try feeding her, left her alone, and picked out the pieces as we found them in her tank.
However, she had started to show heavy wrinkling and had seemed to stopped shedding, but we could still see pieces hanging off of her snout and body. At this point we hit the 'net for help....

The first search result that came up was this forum.

We found that our humidity level is no where near what it should be for a shed.
We also found that our temps are not where they need to be.

We felt that we should address the temp issue first and then adjust the humidity to suit.

Thanks to the Serpent Merchant's thread on tank set-up, we are currently in the process of correcting our tank. Only missing the thermostat for the UTH, but it's been ordered and should be here Monday.

Several problems have come up so far.

When we use a 100watt infrared heat bulb, the tank temp stays around 81, but the humidity drops down to 29%. We have tried the wet towel on the top, misting the Aspen bedding (not sure how much is too much), wet moss in a tupperware bowl, all to no avail. The highest we could get last night is 45%, so we thought let it be, we'll start on it first thing this morning.

We woke up to a burned out heat bulb (didn't last 12 hours), tank temp down to 69 and humidity at 70%. The under hide temp is still 88+/-. We put in the white day heat bulb that came with the kit, the temp has reached 77, and the humidity is down to 47%. The last thing we want right now is a RI.

Sorry for the long post , but I wanted to get out as much info as I could.

Now to the questions.....

1) How can we increase the humidity and maintain a healthy level (40 to 60%) when using an infrared heat lamp?
2) Since it's almost impossible to hit 40%, how do we get it to 70% for a shed?
3) Since she has had no problems with the way the tank was before for almost 3 months, other than low humidity, should we even worry about any of this, and just go back to what seemed to work before and just soak her when she sheds?

UGHHHHH!!!!!

I'm sure I'll have plenty of other questions as I get this sorted out.