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Humidity and moist hides

Rorryy

Rorryy

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Hi everyone, I am wondering if I need a moist hide, the humidity stays between 65 & 70% at all times without any misting eventhough it is summer in the Great Northwest (In the winter I doubt I'll have any humid probs). Is this suffice or is a moist hide needed for shedding reasons? My snow spends most of its time buried in the aspen or under it's water dish and never used the hide boxes I had so I took them out. It has yet to shed since I got her, but is eating nicely.
Thanx!
 
Rorryy said:
Hi everyone, I am wondering if I need a moist hide, the humidity stays between 65 & 70% at all times without any misting eventhough it is summer in the Great Northwest (In the winter I doubt I'll have any humid probs). Is this suffice or is a moist hide needed for shedding reasons? My snow spends most of its time buried in the aspen or under it's water dish and never used the hide boxes I had so I took them out. It has yet to shed since I got her, but is eating nicely.
Thanx!
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Hi there Rorry,
The humidity in my Viv is higher than that and I find it hard to lower it. I live in southern New Jersey it's always humid here. I use a humid hide before only because my snake had a shedding problem. He wouldn't shed in one piece and not all of it would come off. Is you snake sheding OK? or did you just get him? And if I were you I would put back the regular hides. He will use them. I have three in my Viv and my snake burrows in the aspen now and then.
If it's a hatchling it should shed for you soon. I think about every three weeks or so.
I hope some of this helps you
Good luck :cheers:
 
Providing a moist hide box when you see an oncoming shed certainly can't hurt. The snake will be the best judge of whether or not he needs it, so give it a try and see if your snake uses it.

My personal opinion is the snake may benefit from more than just the humidity in the air when it needs to shed. I'm in Long Island New York, which is near Lennycorn and even a bit more humid, as I literally live on an island. It has been unbearably humid here all summer, but my snakes still go right for the moist hide as soon as they go into blue phase. They have also been having better sheds since I started using them.

They usually are never in the moist hide unless they are about to shed, so I remove them when not needed. My guess is that wild Corn Snakes may spend a few days buried in some damp moss or leaves to help them shed.

Here's a couple of pics. One is my Okeetee enjoying the damp moss in his hide. He's been in there since I found him in Blue on Friday. The other is the humidity guage showing a reading of almost 75%

Hope this helps...
 

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That definitely helps guys, I will construct a moist tomarrow and put back one of the other hides. Its a hatchling, I have had it 2 weeks now and it has been a little piggy piggy, so hopefully it will go blue soon.
Thanx!
 
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