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Q: How Do You Regulate Humidity?
Posted By:

msmeghan

In Relation To:

Zoe [bp01]

I'm just wondering what you guys use to regulate your Ball's humidity? I'm having some trouble keeping the humidity in my python's enclosure around the proper amount, so I'm wondering what you guys do/think might help me with this!


Points: 150
Topics: Caging , Utensiles/Tools
Tags: Humidity, Python, Regius, Regulation
Species: Pythons > Pythons > Python regius
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Member Comment 12/31/2010 7:47:36 PM

bfpsteeler67

spray a little,close off vents a little

 
Member Comment 12/31/2010 7:58:12 PM

Sylvias

High humidity in a hide box and leave the rest as is.

 
Member Comment 12/31/2010 8:23:30 PM

Sonja K. Reptiles

Put the water dish at least partially over the under tank heat source and in the winter, run a humidifier in the room, too.

 
Accepted Answer 12/31/2010 8:39:06 PM

aaron

A little more information about your environment please: type of cage, vents, heat,....

I'm going to repost my answer to the other Question:

Humidity is water vapor and air pressure. You can have the CHE and a sealed tank and you'll get your humidity.

Your heat rising and vents positioned in the back like that draw air from the outside in, pull it through and spit it out the top. In normal room temp, if you sit a glass out, at 70 degrees it evaporates relatively quickly. You have to find your cages balance between airflow and moisture.

CHE's produce a very dry heat. I don't know why.

Close up your vents a bit. You'll see fog on the glass last longer the less airflow you have. But then this gets into health benefits of fresh air. This has been a great heated chondro debate.

I've found bowls of water are pretty useless in an open system. They don't evaporate quicker than the air flow. Therefore, humidity (since you lack pressure) drops.

Try a rolled up wet towel on one side of the cage, or a kitchen towel on the side (dunno how you'd get it there).

With arboreals, it's easy. The wet towel as a substrate provides an enormous amount of evaporation. With the damned ground dwelling fecal smearing terrestrials, it's a far bigger challenge. The rolled up towel though should provide good retention and surface area for adequate evaporation once you pressurize the system by closing the vents a bit.

Never share towels with other cages, if they get soiled throw them out. Cheap rags/dishtowels can be found at wally world.

There's a Question here that is similar

 
Member Comment 1/1/2011 2:52:44 AM

shellboa

I like the rolled towel idea! Lots easier than lots of misting which is what we try to do. A moss hide is great but you have to rely on them to use it too.

 
Member Comment 1/1/2011 6:45:08 PM

Doomtrooper

You could try putting an air stone in the water bowl I find it keeps the humidity levels up a bit longer after I spray my green tree's

 
Member Comment 1/1/2011 9:43:48 PM

Deicide

+1 Aaron

 
Member Comment 1/1/2011 10:13:53 PM

aaron

haha, i was just gonna +1 Doom.. the airstone is a classic!

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