Lowering Humidity

[missi182]

What can you expect from a $15 unit right?

Because of the sweat spots where the water dish and the snake was laying, I don't doubt that the humidity is as high as the accurite reads.

We moved the probe just a few minutes ago and so far it's dropped to 78%. I wonder if maybe since the probe was in the substrate that gave the high reading. It wasn't buried but it wasn't laying on top either.

The probe itself only measures temperature, not humidity. The device itself measures humidity. If you just worded the sentence wrong, thats o.k - I thought I would just give you a heads up if you didn't know.

[TanyaL]

The probe itself only measures temperature, not humidity. The device itself measures humidity. If you just worded the sentence wrong, thats o.k - I thought I would just give you a heads up if you didn't know.

Nope...not worded wrong...just thinking wrong! LOL

Since the accurite measures two temps, I was thinking of it as in indoor/outdoor thermometer, with the probe measuring temp and humidity, outside. I was just having one of those DUH moments. LOL

Thanks again everybody for the help. The humidity is slowly dropping. The last time I checked it was down to 76%.

[Jenn]

I have had similar problems with substrate. If you know it's going to be humid beforehand you can dry it out before you use it. I have avoided this problem by having an extra 20 long set-up all the time. When its time to clean one, I just move the snake into the "already perfect" enclosure, then clean the old set-up and I'm all ready for the next cleaning day.