Keeping humidity up

[Ivanator]

For those of you that keep your large snakes with newspaper, how do you keep your humidity up? I keep my 12ft male retic in a 6'x3'x18" enclosure with a large water bowl, but am having a lot of trouble keeping the humidity in the 70% range. I have to mist like 3 or 4 times a day but it always drops to like 50% or less.

[Terranaut]

Post a pic and some info about your viv. How do you heat it? Ect.

[Mark Taylor]

Tubs with holes in it and moss. Works for me.

[Ivanator]

Post a pic and some info about your viv. How do you heat it? Ect.

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It's a large aquarium flipped on its side. I heat it with the zoo med heat cable and the hot spot is on the far right at 91 degrees and there's a little bit of the cable going around the rest of the bottom with each cable spaced about 5" apart from each other.

[Mark Taylor]

So what is the cool side at?

[Ivanator]

I'm not exactly sure on the cool side but the room stays around 78 degrees so I'm assuming its around there

[Mark Taylor]

I would try to find out exactly how cool it is.

[Lankyrob]

Is that open mesh each end? If it is that is where your humidity is going :)

[Mark Taylor]

Is that open mesh each end? If it is that is where your humidity is going :)

I mist that LOL:)

[Ivanator]

That was the only way I could get ventilation in there since the rest of it is a glass aquarium. If I covered some of it up, would that be enough ventilation?

[Jack C]

I'd block that open mesh area with a sheet of wood and get a few circular vents from eBay, sure to sort that problem out.

[Gungirl]

I would block at least 90% of the mesh...

[murrindindi]

Hi, you need to block almost ALL of the mesh off, even 3 or 4 small 1/2inch holes at each side are enough for air exchange (you`ll get that anyway whenever you open the enclosure). Put them low down, that way you shouldn`t lose much humidity at all.

[murrindindi]

I mist that LOL:)


Hi, do you mean "mist" as in spray, or "missed" as in didn`t notice? ;)

[Ivanator]

Thanks for the advice guys

[Terranaut]

I also built a tank like that but vented it at the bottom. Humidity is fine.in mine. Close up those screens like mentioned above.
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