Got our first python Sunday... few ?s

[Ranulf]

Okay ... my RHP is on order. In the meantime, I brought in my whole-room safe space heater and placed it near but definitely not too near the enclosure but so that cross ventilation would take in the warmer air. It worked! Definitely prefer the safety of an RHP long term but the space heater in the room over about an hour got the cool side and the warm side of the enclosure within range. I set a thermostat alarm for if it gets to high. So far so good. Now I just need to get a small locking lid bin to place him in while I install my RHP when it comes.

I'm still a little concerned that the humidity is holding at 99%. The bowl I get him is a flat but wide ceramic bowl I made years ago ... it's like 12" across but only 1" deep and filled halfway. I'm thinking that much surface area is making it too humid so I may try a smaller bowl when I install the RHP. The coconut substrate was nearly dry when I put it in so I'm surprised it is holding humidity this well, especially with the number of holes drilled along the back of the enclosure. It's so moist the walls and front are covered in droplets. Wiping them down should theoretically be removing moisture but with it staying that high the bowl is the only source of water in there. Still glad too have too wet as a problem over too dry...we will get there.

I would get another method of checking your humidity levels. Get one of the digital ones if you don't have one already. Lots of the analog ones just get stuck. You likely don't have 99% humidity, though the fact there are droplets forming says that it is at the least very high...