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What should i keep my in my room and the rack? I was told to it at all times at 65%. What should it be?

Kasimar

Well mom,like I said when we talked, I keep my humidity at 50% in the snake room,and I mist them when they are in shed.I think 60% is a little high.I've been wrong before.
I'm sure one of the more qualified people will chime in.
David Perkins

read the snake, not a humidity gauge. if it has dry or partial sheds, you need more humidity. if it is too moist, you will have rotting problems.

support with a proper setup, of course, great temps, hide spot, and substrate choice.
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robyn@proexotics.com

Pro Exotics Reptiles

Nice....wait and see if your snake rots,if so it's too moist.lol

Some of the advice here is absolutly ludicrious.
Hope someone else chimes in with somthing a little more useful than "if it has dry or partial sheds, you need more humidity. if it is too moist, you will have rotting problems."

Robyn, give me a break!

David Perkins

Geez, give Robyn a break. The Barkers basically say the same thing in their book. Too many people only pay attention to numbers. This is not an exact science here. If the snake sheds completely, the humidity levels are fine. If the cage is wet all the time, they will get belly rot. Each person needs to find what number works well for them.

The question was what humidity level to keep the room at, not the cage. If you are using a cage that has a ton of ventilation and no way to contain the humidity then the level in the whole room will have to be much higher. If you have a cage with little ventilation then the humidity level in the room can be much lower, because the cage itself will have a higher humidity level than the rest of the room.

Robyn had a great suggestion down below of using 12 inch square seedling trays and filling it with 2 inches of sphagnum moss. This way it will hold a little extra water and be a nice humid retreat in the cage without making the whole thing too moist.
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Ryan Sherman
Scottsdale, Arizona
www.ThePaintedPython.com

you are SURE we have a humidity gauge at PE?

i would challenge you to find one.

i would say that we do a pretty good job of breeding reptiles. this is our 15th year. we have bred thousands of animals. we have never used a humidity gauge to measure humidity.

you don't have to see a dead ball with scale rot to know it is too moist. you can see it is too moist with different clues that are just as simple as dry sheds. then you can adjust accordingly. to think that i would wait until the animal is near death, or even sloughing scales, that is just dopey. i want to see folks become BETTER keepers, not DUMBER keepers.

the point is to READ YOUR ANIMALS. a book or caresheet works as a BASIS for care, but you have to consider your own specific set up, your own specific variables, and read and react to those.

the setup i need to provide in Colorado is different than the one i need to provide in Florida, which differs from Arizona, which differs from Michigan.

cheap humidity gauges, which are plentiful, are horribly inaccurate. they are not much better than licking your finger and holding it in the air to measure temp.

learn to read your animals, react and adjust accordingly, and you will be a better keeper.
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robyn@proexotics.com

Pro Exotics Reptiles

is very nasty. I suggest, you not wait till you see belly rot before deciding....oh gee maybe it's to moist.

David Perkins

Personally I keep the humidity in my snake room between 50-60%.
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Found this info right here on KS.

One thing which commonly gets over looked is the level of humidity in the tank. Since Ball Pythons spend a lot of time underground in burrows or in termite nests, they are more sensitive to relative humidity than one might expect.
I would suggest you stop by your local K-mart or Wal-mart and get a hygrometer× from the outdoor/garden section. They are accurate enough to provide a close estimate, and allow you to monitor changes in humidity.
I recommend the ambient humidity be at least 60%, and you may want to provide a hide box which has a higher percent (70-80%). Low humidity can cause incomplete shedding, dehydration, and sometimes a lack of appetite. To either add or remove humidity, you can provide bigger or smaller water bowls. You can restrict, but not stop, air flow from the tank. You can use porous substrates (i.e. mulch) that will hold some moisture and mist the cage every so often. I feel that if you provide a big water bowl with a hole cut in the lid, the snake will use it as another hide and soak/re-hydrate itself as needed.

Hope this helps.

David Perkins