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I recently moved my ball python to a new environment, and I'm having a really hard time getting the humidity up where it should be. I've got two water dishes in his cage, 3/4 of the screen top covered to keep in humidity, a warm mist humidifier running a foot away from his cage, and I'm misting daily. With all that, the ambient humidity is only 30%.
What else can I do?

It must be a big room, I have one water bowl in each bin (obviously), standing water in dishes on the counter, and a warm mist humidifier, and the room gets up to 60-65% It's a small room though. Maybe up the temp in the room to 80-85F . Good luck.

What's your set up (cage type, substrate, top, heating, etc) and what are you measuring your levels with?
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Tosha
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cover 90% of it . and use something that won't soack up the Humidity . David

Thanks for the responses! I'm in a dorm room at college, so it's certainly not a big room, but it means I don't have control over the building's heating. I've got a 20 gallon long tank for the cage with aspen substrate, and an "acu-rite" sensor reading temperature and humidity. Would covering more of the top really make that much of a difference, if everything I've already done wouldn't get it above 35%? Also, are there substrates that are better for humidity that don't cost a ton? I've been looking at maybe getting a better humidifier, but again, cost is an issue.

It's 22% in his cage right now, that CAN'T be good. Anyone have any ideas, please? It's going on the second week like this and I'm worried it's got to be hurting him somehow. Any advice would be great.

Change your aspen over to cypress which will help with humidity -- cover the entire top of the cage and you didn't mention what you were using for heat but if it's a bulb or heat emitter -- you'll need to change that to under tank heating.

Good luck.
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Tosha
JET Pythons
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