How humid is TOO humid?

[HospiceNHeartsRN]

I live in Oklahoma, where humidity is one of many roller coaster aspects of our weather... Day time humidity outside right now runs 40-60% and night is more like 70-80% or even higher. Obviously this makes it hard to maintain consistent humidity in Ek's enclousure....

During the day it sits just a out perfect 52-58%, but at night it is jumping up to 60s and 70s. The high humidity for the last 48 hours is showing as 78%, eekkkk...

I have a 50/50 mix of aspen and Cyprus bedding, with more aspen by her warm hide and my Cyprus by her cold hide because the Aspen seems to allow more even heat transfer. Ambient temp is between 77-82 with cool side belly at about 80 and warm side belly 89-92 (92 on glass, 89 on top of substrate). So my temps are (finally) perfect. And Ek spends her time fairly equally between her two hides and just roaming. So all in all she looks totally great.

I am just super worried about the high humidity for 8 or so hours a day, plus the facility that it just varies so much.

So... if you read all of my worried rambling I thank you and am I just overly worried or do I need to fix the humidity? And if I need to fix it... how?

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[tbowman]

It's too much when you start seeing condensation in the cage.

[HospiceNHeartsRN]

Ok, so as long as no visible condensation I'm good? Oh, BIG relief there Thank you so much, you just made this snake mama WAY less stressed!

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[tbowman]

As long as temperatures are correct I would say so. I see pretty high humidity in my tubs on a regular basis and I used to worry a lot about it and it seemed like no matter how many holes I put in the tubs, the humidity would still skyrocket into the 80s at times. I've gotten to the point that since there is some ventilation in between the top of the tub and the rack, that I don't even put any holes in the tubs anymore.

[C2tcardin]

When your BP is swimming around the tank along with the tropical fish your humidity is too high. LOL

[bcr229]

Actually depending on the size of the enclosure you may see some condensation on the walls of the cool side; I will see a bit occasionally after misting, but it does disappear after a few hours. As long as the snake isn't lying on wet, moldy substrate it's not an issue.

[hungba]

Condensation depends partly on temperature outside vs inside. If you have a cold room and heated tubs/cages, that can lead to condensation. It's not a very good judgement of humidity.

When you take a cold drink into hot weather, there is condensation, but not because of humidity.

Just get it to 60 to 70 % and its fine. A bit higher or lower within reason isn't gonna be too much of a problem.