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Super high humidity??

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Yuka

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So my tank's reading at a very high humidity - 78 to 80% range. All I did was add water to her bowl when I brought her home and nothing got spilled and the air in there doesn't even feel humid. My crabs have 80% humidity and I can feel the heaviness of the air in there but not with Lola's tank. I have a glass lid with a small slit and a couple small holes for air. Think I should switch to screen instead? I also have the gauge kinda close to the water, could it be picking up on that instead?

Bah, sorry for the stupid questions. I'm so used to caring for crabs, I don't like being back to square one. :s
 
analog or digital gauge?

analog gauges are notoriously unreliable. Even commercial grade digital hygrometers can be inaccurate, with the best option being scientific, weather grade hygrometers.

Living in the bone dry, desert SW US the only time I waste my time and money with a hygrometer is in my incubators. I let me cages tell me if they are too low or not. The easiest way to even avoid this is by providing a warm, moist hide, which I provide in all my snake cages except with my rosy boa and green tree pythons.
 
I would switch to a screen lid, that will help reliese some of the trapped humidity and corns do much better with a fully screened lid. :)

lol and don't stress, corns are pretty Hardy snakes and yours isn't a baby, so the little bit of added humidity isn't going to hurt her if it's addressed as soon as you can.
 
Man I wish super high humidity was my problem. Much easier to decrease than to try to maintain an increase.

As NM said though, you really can't put too much stock into an analog or cheap digital hygrometer. They're more of a "piece of mind" than a scientifically accurate tool. If it does in fact feel a bit humid in there, then replacing with a screen lid will solve your problem ASAP. Near impossible to keep humidity in them.
 
Its a digital hygrometer I bought off Amazon. Frankly it doesn't feel humid at all and it was reading the perfect level when it didn't have water. Obviously I'm not gonna not give Lola water so I'm actually on my way to get a screen lid as I type this. Plus even if I just had a screen lid to begin with, I know how to keep humidity in with those lol
 
Well this is just my luck. My tank is 12.5 x 36. Their lids were only 12 x 36. Plan B is drilling the rubber part of my lid full of holes. ._.
 
oh my.. that does suck!
could they not order the right size in for you?

or maybe you can order it offline yourself!
 
Don't think they could. One of my friends suggested hammering one of the sides flat but I'm gonna try drilling her current lid first before I try that.
 
Mwuahahaha now we're getting somewhere! It's hovering around the mid to high 60s instead of 80. >:D
 
So it's currently holding at 64/65. I read that the highest it can be is 60 but for corn snakes does a difference of 5% matter? With hermit crabs, the answer is yes but they're also built considerably differently so I'm not sure.
 
no, 5% in humidity isn't a huge deal, and it should go down over time anyways..
and yea your right hermit crabs are designed wayyy differently then a corn snake..

there pretty Hardy snakes anyways, their are others that would need their humidity perfect, but that's not as important to corns as proper temps are..
 
RAAAAGE.

Now it's reading 70%. I need to calibrate this thing. :headbang:

Now if it is reading accurately, I'm still wary moving anything because of the placement.

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She spends her time on the cool side on the left, so I dunno exactly how to move anything without picking her up or if it would even fit. :headbang: Advice??
 
Err, hovering between 65 and 70 I meant. Sorry, got off work just now, I feel like a sack of potatoes with the brain capacity to match. x.x
 
AHAAAAAA. Left it overnight and it's reading 59 instead of 75 like it's supposed to. It was reading 63 when I went to bed but either way it's off! Holy crap, I've been freaking out over nothing. Should've done this sooner, I would've saved you guys time.

Thanks for helping me though!
 
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