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Yasha
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 Is This Humidity Alright?

I use glass tanks with screen lids for all my snakes. I recently moved them both into a condo type tank I tailored with plexiglass. The Humidity is sitting, for both sides, at 38%. This is the highest humidity I’ve ever ben able to reach in my room and I’ve tried everything. I know corns need something like 40-50% humidty, but thus far none of my corns has had trouble shedding and I mist daily (inside the warm hide and over the heat pad to help increase humidty.) so should I be concerned about the humidty? Ay ideas on how to raise it to the appropriate levels?



05/06/08  03:46pm

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   Message To: Yasha   In reference to Message Id: 1727097


 Is This Humidity Alright?

yasha,
as with everything else... you’ll find different opinions on this subject... it has been my experience.. that humidity isn’t that big of a concern with corns as it is with other snakes.. I would bump it up during shed... but you probably won’t even have a problem then. Do you still have screens? I have my corns in a tanks with screen lids and have no shed problems whatsoever... I just move my water dish over the UTH when I need higher humidity.. I have to fill the dish up more often... but it helps me reach my goal.
05/06/08  04:26pm

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   Message To: Yasha   In reference to Message Id: 1727097


 Is This Humidity Alright?

I always had a hard time with humidity with my corn, but then she was in a 55 gal
(when I knew nothing), and usually what I did was mist her while handling
when she showed signs of shedding... never had anything but one peice sheds :o)

38% is not far from the recommended minimum level...
But with my BPs, they need to have the higher humidity,
so I work harder at keeping the humidity up where it should be,
or right in the middle.

Give the snake a mist once in a while... it’ll be fine :o)
05/06/08  04:33pm

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   Message To: Marg   In reference to Message Id: 1727163


 Is This Humidity Alright?

Thanks guys! I figured only 2% off the minimum wasn’t doing to badly, and I also know corns are hardy little buggers who just keep on trucking through our stupidity...
And yes I still have screen covers on them. I have two more tanks I am not using, a 20 gallon cube one (zoo med) and a 10 gallon kritter keeper with the slide locking screen lid, but unless I get a male leo or something that doesn’t need too much space (so no snakes) I think I will be moving exclusively to tubs.

I don’t like that you can’t see into most of them, but honestly I’ve come to realise that having a few display animals is still pretty good, and that if I want to expand my collection, I will quickly run out of dresser, shelf and table space if I want them all to be display animals. And there are precious few snakes that I want out there that don’t require intense humidity, and so for the sake of the animal, tubs are a much better resource...
05/06/08  08:31pm


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