raising humidity

[Jacko6310]

how do you raise the humidity inside the cage?

 

[gpoleweski]

What kind of heat source are you using? What snake?
If it's just for a shed, usually a spray on the snake should do, if it's something like a GTP...Then a spray everyday should be ok?...

 

[Jacko6310]

hi
i have a heat mat and a light.
its a spotted python(A.maculosa)

 

[fidzy]

you can lightly mist every few days. also put the water under the heat source would help

 

[diprotodon]

first thing what humidity is the enclosure at atm:|

 

[Chrisreptile]

Using a larger water bowl and moving it closer to the heat source will raise the humidity.

 

[kidsheart]

i found water bowls on help a tiny bit, not enough for what i needed, as with misting (unless its misted once every few hours. only way i found to keep a fair bit of humidity is use a reptile bark of some sort as bedding and mist every few days. depending on what your cage is made of it may hold humidity better or worse.

 

[KaaTom]

Why are you wanting to raise the humidity?

 

[-Peter]

Add spagnum moss or coconut peat and keep it moist. Put a water fall in.

 

[wranga]

what amount of humidity are you trying to raise and why

 

[Renagade]

what substraight are you using? it makes a hell of a difference.

 

[Reptile City]

You can get a icecream tub or something that looks better.
Put a hole in the top just big enought for the python to get in safely.
Add like Peter said, some spagnum moss, keep it moist at an area that is around 30 degress.
He will use this alot & they shed perfect everytime.
I never use a humidity gauge.
My pythons shedding right, is the gauge!

Jason

 

[Jacko6310]

i have a sort of marine carpet. he has had several bad sheds so i need to keep humidity hugher

 

[diprotodon]

i have a sort of marine carpet. he has had several bad sheds so i need to keep humidity hugher

too much ventalation perhaps,putting a large water bowl closer if not under or ontop of heat source should do the job what species are you keeping what level humidity is the enclosure atm ,adding a second water bowl will also do the job works for me

 

[chrisso81]

Maybe too much humidity constantly will be a bad thing? RI and all that (respiratory infection)? My spotted had a pretty bad shed just recently, little flaky bits of shed everywhere and a few large sections of skin still stuck on her. When i noticed her hiding out and coming up to this shed, I just popped my fingers in her water bowl, and flicked water under the heat lamps leading up to the shed , and dripped a fair bit of water onto a porous sandstone rock as well. I kept doing it until she had shed, which was today, and had no problems whatsoever. Perfect shed, no RI.

When ever my snakes have a bad shed I give em a soak in a tub of warm water for about 20-30 minutes, then it comes straight off.