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Low humidity in snake room

jglass38

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I recently moved into a new apartment and my snake room is now very dry. For the first time ever, 2 of my BPs had horrible sheds (and they are in AP racks). I keep the central air vent turned off but that is no help. Also, in the old room I never had trouble keeping condensation on the walls and front of my Brazilian Rainbow Boa cage but now its near impossible (he is in an AP T3). Any suggestions? Would a regular humidifier make a difference? The room is about 10X12. Part of what is keeping it dry are the heat lamps for my Uromastyx and White's Tree Frog. Thanks in advance!

Jamie
 
I live out in the desert, I can understand your frustration with low humidity, a humidifier would help a lot. Personally I spray everyone down everyday. I also switched to a coconut husk substrate, it acts like a sponge and it works great. The substrate does not mold like you may think with it being wet all the time. I had to move away from newspaper as it was adding in the dryness of my herps. It is a hassle, but I also have BRBs and GTPs, it is a struggle at times but the last time my female GTP shed it was perfect. The summers out here hurt, I hope this was helpful. Oh yeah I also installed little misting systems in some of the tanks, though when I finally build my real reptile room I will have a big misting system hooked up to all my tanks using the plant misters you can buy at any Home Depot, it is really going to be cool, but it also will be a couple of years.
 
Get some fish tanks. :) I have a bunch of tanks and I have to run a dehumidier to keep the humidity reasonable. Even with the A/C running my dehumidifier (that's set to keep it under 65%) still has to kick on a few times daily.
 
Jamie,

Substrate change may well help and is worth considering. My herp room stays fairly dry as I have heat lamps for my monitors and other lizards. I cannot close all of the central AC vents unless I want to cook the herps as the room is finished space over a garage. As long as I provide a bowl big enough for a good soak my BP's all shed well. I see them soak for a day or so around the time they are blue and they shed perfectly. Other than that they don't soak much if at all. Your BRB's are going to be more of a challenge. I am not familiar with the design of your cages but covering a portion of the vent areas may help some, along with lots of spraying. A second water bowl, on the "hot" side of the enclosure, may also help.
 
Things have improved a bit. What I do is when they go blue I put the water bowl over the heat source until they shed. I also spray down the walls of the plastic tubs once a day until they shed. So far, perfect!

The BRB has never been a problem as the humidity stays up fine in the AP T3
 
hey jamie, you could just get a plain humidifier like from walmart/lowes and humidify the whole room.


vaughn
 
True enough. We'll see how it works out for the next month...
 
Room humidifiers won't do that much to increase the humidity inside of individual cages, unfortunately. There will be an increase, but not in an equal amount to the increase in the room itself. In other words, if your RH in the room increased in 20%, for example, you may only see a 5% increase inside of the cages. There are a lot of factors that influence this, obviously, but it's generally true.

What I would do is buy an ultrasonic room humidifier. You can either run PVC pipe or aquarium tubing from the outlet port depending upon the design. Then the moisture can be directed right into the cage.

Of the two I prefer the brand that allows the use of 5/8" aquarium tubing. If you take the top cover off you can see two 5/8" holes. I don't remember which brands have this.

The one downfall of these humidifiers is that they really need RO/DI water. Tap water is really hard on the mechanics.
 
Wow, I didn't realize that there was anything like that! That would work great. Could you use distilled in the units or does it have to be RO/DI?
 
I would like to at least use something like this for my BRB setup. I have too many snakes to effectively use it unless I built a full rack with a misting system built in. I dont think that is in my plans anytime soon.
 
room humidifiers do work, if you increase the humdity in the ambient air of the room, this will raise moisture in everything in the room, including your cages/racks unless they are airtight.


vaughn
 
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