a little help

[ShinRai]

regarding misting or keeping the Humidity at the right hight
I use the stupid gage or what ever it's circler shaped~ so is the heat Gage are they no good should I get a eletric powered thing lol
and do you know how I can keep up with the misting. I spray the tank every 4-5 hours basicaly once a day and once a night. is this good?

[mainbutter]

that's what I was doing until just recently, I picked up a brick of exo terra forest moss. Basically it's freeze dried and compacted moss, add water to expand it(boiling water to kill off anything), and add to the cage as needed to boost humidity. My cage has been holding a very nice humidity with no spraying whatsoever.

[Mindibun]

constant spraying of the cage (especially in the amounts you've been doing) is only going to lead to mold. What's that infamous saying? "Instead of treating the symptoms you should treat the problem" or something like that. By spraying, you're treating the symptoms - no humidity. But you ought to be treating the problem - probably a set-up that needs to be tweaked.

If you are keeping the animal in a glass tank, the screen top needs to be 3/4 of the way covered with plastic or tinfoil, or both. Humidity is water that's trying to evaporate. That means it's going up, and if there's nothing more than a screen top, then that water is getting right out of the tank. You have to stop that evaporation.

In addition to that, you need to provide more water. The depth of the water doesn't matter, but the width does. In other words, you're going to want a very wide bowl but not necessarily a very deep one. Place it half way over the heater and it'll evaporate a little faster. Combine that with a screen that's been covered and you get a lot of water being put into the atmosphere in the tank. That's what you should be striving for.

If you could post some pictures of your tank, tub, set-up, whatever ... it would really help us help you.

Sorry if it seems like I dumbed everything down. I just wanted to explain everything right off the bat, instead of having to do a thousand posts and explain it little bits at a time.

Also, to answer your question, YES - you should chuck the thermometers that you have and get a digital one. They cost about the same if you get them from Wal Mart, and they're MUCH more accurate AND (But wait, there's more!) they usually measure more variables as well.

[ShinRai]

thanks~ and ok we have some small plastic lids that cover a little over half of the screen top~ we have a 55 gallon tank with 2 Ball Pythons in it. they are 08 babys I jut got my second snake just recently about a week ago and they jut met in the tank and they seem to like eachother~ and they seem happy~ any way can the moss help out?
btw I use a aspen Bedding

[bsd13]

thanks~ and ok we have some small plastic lids that cover a little over half of the screen top~ we have a 55 gallon tank with 2 Ball Pythons in it. they are 08 babys I jut got my second snake just recently about a week ago and they jut met in the tank and they seem to like eachother~ and they seem happy~ any way can the moss help out?
btw I use a aspen Bedding

Did you quarantine the new snake at all? Better not to house snakes together regardless of if you did or not.

[hoax]

thanks~ and ok we have some small plastic lids that cover a little over half of the screen top~ we have a 55 gallon tank with 2 Ball Pythons in it. they are 08 babys I jut got my second snake just recently about a week ago and they jut met in the tank and they seem to like eachother~ and they seem happy~ any way can the moss help out?
btw I use a aspen Bedding

That is a huge NO NO. just look at this site and decide for your self if the risk is worth it or if you should just spend the money on another snake???

http://pinkladyconstrictors.com/?page_id=10

[hoax]

Sorry posted twice

[West Coast Jungle]

First go to Walmart and get digital humidity/thermometer for accurate readings.

Second do not house multiple Ball Pythons together.

You can also pick up some tubs ate Walmart to house them in. They are cheap and much easier to control humidity. There are several links and threads on how to set up tubs or tanks here in the husbandry section.

[ShinRai]

First go to Walmart and get digital humidity/thermometer for accurate readings.

Second do not house multiple Ball Pythons together.

You can also pick up some tubs ate Walmart to house them in. They are cheap and much easier to control humidity. There are several links and threads on how to set up tubs or tanks here in the husbandry section.

oh really you can't house them together.ok we have a lot of tubs clear ones small ones Large ones~ thanks and ok so this friday we will get a Digital Humidity/Thermometer

[ShinRai]

That is a huge NO NO. just look at this site and decide for your self if the risk is worth it or if you should just spend the money on another snake???

http://pinkladyconstrictors.com/?page_id=10

gasp ok I will seperate them~ I don't want them to kill eacgother or worse give some thing to eachother~