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02-17-13, 10:57 AM
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Keeping humidity up
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.
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1.0 '08 sunfire retic, 0.1 '12 lavender albino tiger retic, 1.0 '12 platinum retic, 0.1 '14 goldenchild het albino retic, 1.0 '16 anthrax retic, 0.1 '16 graniteback het anthrax retic, 0.1 '16 normal HOGS retic, 1.1 amel atrox, 0.0.1 Nile monitor, 0.0.1 blue tailed monitor, 0.0.1 Mexican beaded lizard
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02-17-13, 11:49 AM
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Morelia Enjoyus Maximus
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Re: Keeping humidity up
Post a pic and some info about your viv. How do you heat it? Ect.
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02-17-13, 12:38 PM
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Re: Keeping humidity up
Tubs with holes in it and moss. Works for me.
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02-17-13, 01:42 PM
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Re: Keeping humidity up
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Originally Posted by Terranaut
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.
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1.0 '08 sunfire retic, 0.1 '12 lavender albino tiger retic, 1.0 '12 platinum retic, 0.1 '14 goldenchild het albino retic, 1.0 '16 anthrax retic, 0.1 '16 graniteback het anthrax retic, 0.1 '16 normal HOGS retic, 1.1 amel atrox, 0.0.1 Nile monitor, 0.0.1 blue tailed monitor, 0.0.1 Mexican beaded lizard
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02-17-13, 03:10 PM
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Re: Keeping humidity up
So what is the cool side at?
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02-17-13, 03:17 PM
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Re: Keeping humidity up
I'm not exactly sure on the cool side but the room stays around 78 degrees so I'm assuming its around there
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1.0 '08 sunfire retic, 0.1 '12 lavender albino tiger retic, 1.0 '12 platinum retic, 0.1 '14 goldenchild het albino retic, 1.0 '16 anthrax retic, 0.1 '16 graniteback het anthrax retic, 0.1 '16 normal HOGS retic, 1.1 amel atrox, 0.0.1 Nile monitor, 0.0.1 blue tailed monitor, 0.0.1 Mexican beaded lizard
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02-17-13, 03:20 PM
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Re: Keeping humidity up
I would try to find out exactly how cool it is.
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02-17-13, 03:22 PM
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Re: Keeping humidity up
Is that open mesh each end? If it is that is where your humidity is going 
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02-17-13, 03:24 PM
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Re: Keeping humidity up
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Originally Posted by Lankyrob
Is that open mesh each end? If it is that is where your humidity is going |
I mist that LOL
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02-17-13, 03:35 PM
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Re: Keeping humidity up
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?
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1.0 '08 sunfire retic, 0.1 '12 lavender albino tiger retic, 1.0 '12 platinum retic, 0.1 '14 goldenchild het albino retic, 1.0 '16 anthrax retic, 0.1 '16 graniteback het anthrax retic, 0.1 '16 normal HOGS retic, 1.1 amel atrox, 0.0.1 Nile monitor, 0.0.1 blue tailed monitor, 0.0.1 Mexican beaded lizard
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02-17-13, 03:46 PM
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Re: Keeping humidity up
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.
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02-17-13, 04:05 PM
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Re: Keeping humidity up
I would block at least 90% of the mesh...
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02-17-13, 04:50 PM
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Re: Keeping humidity up
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.
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02-17-13, 04:53 PM
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Re: Keeping humidity up
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Originally Posted by Mark Taylor
I mist that LOL |
Hi, do you mean "mist" as in spray, or "missed" as in didn`t notice? 
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02-17-13, 06:04 PM
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Re: Keeping humidity up
Thanks for the advice guys
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1.0 '08 sunfire retic, 0.1 '12 lavender albino tiger retic, 1.0 '12 platinum retic, 0.1 '14 goldenchild het albino retic, 1.0 '16 anthrax retic, 0.1 '16 graniteback het anthrax retic, 0.1 '16 normal HOGS retic, 1.1 amel atrox, 0.0.1 Nile monitor, 0.0.1 blue tailed monitor, 0.0.1 Mexican beaded lizard
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