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Originally Posted by Dmurphy95
I am mainly worriedad about humidity for the Rosy simply because humidity at my house drops down really quick, and it likes to sit at around 40% as far as I've seen.
That's considered too low for Qizil, my Red-Tailed Boa, but so far I only know that Rosy's need "low" humidity, and am speculating that means around 40?
It's frustratingly hard to find more exact percentages for these guys!
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Not sure how technical I can get with you, but 40% humidity doesn't tell me anything. Relative Humidity is called relative because it relates to the amount of water held in the air at the current temperature. So without knowing your ambient air temperature, it doesn't tell me a thing.. You have to look at both temperature and humidity together to make sense of it.
Example;
At 70 F a relative humidity of 60% holds just as much water in the air as 34% relative humidity at 88 F
This is why you get radically different humidity readings in your enclosure depending on where you place your meter (close or far from the heat source), while it's a confined space. Closer to the heat source the air is warmer, and as a result can hold more moisture. It's relative humidity has dropped.
At 100% relative humidity you have reached the so called dew point at the current temperature, which means the air can't hold more water and it starts to deposit it on the colder surfaces (usually the glass and plants) as little drips.
Hope this makes sense.
As for the Rosy, you can keep it safely at the humidity typically found in homes. There's no need to supply it any supplements, it's far more likely to make it too moist for it, than not moist enough.
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