Humidity problem

[Dracosdad]

The Habba mister is a fine product but it sprays water for animals that need more humidity than the 50-60% needed for ball pythons. I acquired one in a package deal and tried to find a use for it but couldn't.

Relative humidity here in Colorado can drop into the 20's for weeks so I use a $15 Tropicaire humidifier, seen here http://www.reptiledirect.com/tropica...gernopump.aspx. It pumps wet air instead of spraying water so you won't have wet substrate to deal with. You have to buy a seperate aquarium air pump but they're everywhere from $10-20. I put in on a timer and refill it with water every month or two.

Our BP's first shed took 5 soakings to remove. I installed this thing and every shed since then has been perfect.

[ride_gnu]

The snake just needs somewhere to go to raise it's humidity when it is shedding. Make a humid hide.

Get a plastic container big enough for them to coil up in, and cut a hole (smooth any rough edges). Then put damp spagnum moss inside. Re-wet it every few days and you should be set. Works great......

Do you place the humid hide on the warm or cool side?

[bigballs]

The snake just needs somewhere to go to raise it's humidity when it is shedding. Make a humid hide.

Get a plastic container big enough for them to coil up in, and cut a hole (smooth any rough edges). Then put damp spagnum moss inside. Re-wet it every few days and you should be set. Works great......

but what if it doesnt go in there while its in shed...?

you need to have a proper relative humidity inside the enclosure with ball pythons.

[starmom]

Do you place the humid hide on the warm or cool side?

If you need a bump, you'd put some moss in both of the hides.

[starmom]

but what if it doesnt go in there while its in shed...?

you need to have a proper relative humidity inside the enclosure with ball pythons.

Absolutely. And because the OP said that the humidity was always low, simply making a humid hide for shedding purposes would not work

[anatess]

I finally got my humidity stabilized at 50%! I've been battling this same problem for 3 weeks - can't get humidity past the 35% mark... I have a 55 gallon glass exo-terra tank with UTH and ceramic heat lamp and big waterbowl.

I did trial and error until I finally got it stabilized. This is what I did:

1.) I put tin-foil on 2/3 of the top screen and taped it down with duct tape (I use duct tape on anything that needs sticking). I had to get a rheostat for my lamp because with the foil, it made the ambient temperature too high, so I had to tone it down some.
2.) I put half of the water bowl on top of the UTH
3.) Replaced the aspen bedding with cypress bedding
4.) Used a mister when I wake up and before dinner. This is the mister I used:
http://www.petsmart.com/product/inde...t8RmTTXmp2x2eQ
There's a junior version which is 10 bucks cheaper but I got this one because it produces a finer mist. I know the review isn't that great - but I never had problems assembling the stuff. And, I didn't expect the thing to be an "automatic" mister... you can't have an automatic something without some kind of motor, duh!

I have to say, the biggest factor was the cypress bedding. Without it, the misting only keeps the humidity stable for an hour or so.

I tried the damp towel on top of the screen, but after 2 days it started to smell moldy, so I took that out. I tried the hamster ball with wet paper towels in it and it raised humidity by 5%. After I got the cypress bedding, I didn't need to use the hamster ball to keep it at 50%.

I also have a rock hide with spagnum moss in it. When I mist, I mist in there as well, so it remains slightly damp in there. My bp doesn't go in there much, though. He likes just hiding behind the rock (I have lots of plastic vegetation and aquarium decor around it, since I got a really big tank, my bp finds all these hiding spots that were not intended as "hides").

Maybe this will help.