Quote Originally Posted by BrandonPythons View Post
I handle him probably once a day for maybe 5-15 minutes probably but the past week I wasn't able too due to me being at my dads but I came back to check-up on him and to clean his tub/water his dish etc and no it seems just to be the daytime cruising nothing else unusual. My humidity often reaches above 65+ and I'm not sure how to get it down, I've tried a lot and it just doesn't seem to go down, he did just have his first shed with me and it came out all in one piece including the head which I thought was very good but the humidity now is quite high and I can't get it down (I'm using paper towels as a substate).
5 minutes to 15 minutes is a good time frame but maybe don't try to handle him daily. Every third or second day is fine as well. And give him at least two days of rest with no handling at all after he has eaten.
Concerning the humidity issue: As someone who has struggled with humidity myself (both very high and very low humidity) I know how you feel. When I had my ball python in his quarantine set up when I first got him, humidity would stay between 70% and 80% if I closed the lid of the enclosure. Since he would escape I didn't close the lid, I would stay up every night the first two weeks after I got him (During daytime he was sleeping anyway. I've never seen him awake during the daytime expect for the times when he suddenly wanted to move from hide to hide.).
Two things really helped me: A dehumidifier and a fan.
I put the fan on the side of the enclosure (right next to the holes for ventilation), so it would blow away all the air that comes out of the enclosure and increase the air circulation. I also put a cheap dehumidifier next to the enclosure.
With these two things the humidity dropped to about 68%.
Maybe you can also move your water bowl further away from the heat source? Is that possible?