Crushed walnut is very dessicating. Screen top doesn't help either, even if 3/4 is covered.

Soak the snakes in about 1/4 inch of water. Let them hydrate for a good 5-10 minutes.

If you want, keep a humid hide in there, or else soak periodically as needed. Really works. Hydrated snakes are far better captives.

Even though they are arid snakes, they would live mostly in burrows or in the soil where they don't dry out. In captivity in those darn glass tanks on a substrate that sucks the moisture out of everything it touches plus a heater, they dry out faster. A plastic box as a cage may be better for them, as it is more enclosed = less evaporation from the snake's body. And newspaper or aspen is likely better in that it doesn't absorb all the mositure as much.
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