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I'm working with vision cages (221s) for the first time and they seem to keep humidity in a little too well. I have the water bowl at the cool end and directly under the vent, but the humidity is still reaching around 80%.

I was planning on getting a dehumidifier since the room is 60% already, but will lowering room humidity really help in pulling out all that extra water in the cage? I need the cages at about 60-65% and I don't want to put anything in it until I get the conditions right.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

One method is to use a smaller water bowl or else only offer water a few times a week. Depends on what you are keeping of course. With humidity that high, there is no reason to have water in there 100% of the time, again depending on what you are keeping.

Visions are easy to modify. You can cut a few vent holes and either rivet or silicon mesh to cover the hole. Still, I would adjust the water bowl size or time in the cage before adding vents.
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Mark

My question is what are you using for substrate? If you using mulch I'd repalce that with newspaper or aspen than add a sweater box with mulch for a humidity area. It gives the snakes a choice and cuts down on humidity.

Using a smaller bowl is a good idea to as it was suggested by someone else.

I used to use vision. They are good cages. I had vents in the back of mine that helped control humidity.

Frank Hayden