humidity method for ball pythons

[MrPower]

Hello all, I have another question for all you good people. I moved here to Alberta not too long ago and the environment here has me a little stumped. My method for keeping good humidity for my pythons used to be just keep a hide moist with water and it worked great for years. But here for some reason my dirt gets mould in just a couple days. So with that problem I thoright of a different solution and that is I purchased a humidifier to keep the humidity up in the room and keep the hides dry. Anybody have some knowledge with this kinda setup. I find it working fine But I'm not sure if the pythons well like all dry dirt where naturally it should be damp. I'm thinking if the humidity in the room is to spec then the dry dirt should not matter and may be better so that mould Isn't a issue. I keep my Cali King snake dirt completely dry and never a mould problem.Thanks all for reading.

[Snowshoes]

We had issues with humidity for our ball python too. This is going to sound ghetto, but I just took to keeping a wet towel over the top of the enclosure (2/3 or so) and mist that a few times a day. I then change the towel every few days. But keeping a humidifier might be an awesome way to supplement that? I would mist the inside of the cage too, but not necessarily wet the dirt. I imagine it could cause some kind of scale rot or something. Not really sure, I'm interested what others have found too. Good luck!

Love and Light,
Snowshoes

[Hurrok]

You can also use a piece of tinfoil to cover the majority of the lid to keep moisture in. You want to make sure that it's not constantly too wet on the bottom of the cage as it can cause scale-rot if you are not careful. However daily misting 1-2x a day can be a big help with a large water dish. :)

[pdomensis]

are you using a screen top aquarium or a front opening set up? Sounds strange that you would have mold on your substrate but low humidity. How are you heating? Some more info will probably get you better response. cheers.

[nyx]

Use sphagnum moss instead of "dirt" in a humid hide.

[MrPower]

I use 50 gallon aquariums with screen lids, with uth on the one side under one hide. my humidity was fine with the moist substrate method, sheds were all fine. just trying out my new method of dry substrate and a humidifiers in the room. due to the mould problem I had in some corners where the moister was the most. does anyone else have the humidifier setup? I think a dryer substrate and relative humidity in the room is at specs would be a greater method.

[Mikoh4792]

I think an even greater method would be to cover the screen top instead of humidify img the whole room. The water bowl alone with misting s every few days will keep your humidity in check. Dry substrate is better than wet substrate because of mold issues. Wet substrate does not equal humidity anyways so yes, the humidty(water in the air) is all that counts.

[Snowshoes]

for what it's worth, I tried covering the tank with tin foil, with misting it and a huge water dish. But I still found putting a wet towel over the top worked the best to hold the humidity in and add extra humidity as the towel dries. with the foil and just misting i was lucky to keep 40% if I misted every few hours.

[Mikoh4792]

for what it's worth, I tried covering the tank with tin foil, with misting it and a huge water dish. But I still found putting a wet towel over the top worked the best to hold the humidity in and add extra humidity as the towel dries. with the foil and just misting i was lucky to keep 40% if I misted every few hours.

Very strange, must have to do with ambient conditions varying from home to home. Covering a screen top with anything solid has worked great for me. After all you are reducing the amount of humidity lost the more you restrict ventilation from a screen top.