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I have found it extremely dry in my herp room of late, and use humid hides for all of my lizards.

My corn seems to be getting some dried up scales, and I was wondering how I could safely raise the humidity.

I think I'd like to make her a humid hide using sphagnum moss.

What do you think?

Thanks.

Joel

PS: I keep her on aspen.
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2.3 Leopard Geckos
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Why not get a room humidifier?You can find them cheap in the back of most newspapers in the classified section.Wally world has the small medical ones for around 20 bucks...Paul.

I live in Canada and it's been very dry, so dry that house and room humidifiers are not cutting it. It would probably be easier and more effective for the snake to have it's own humid hide when needed.

I use one when mine is in shed, simply out of a plastic deli cup with moistened paper towel. You could definately use sphagnum moss isntead. Depending on how much the humidity you need, you can leave the lid off or on (or partway), and the location of the hide in the tank will also have effect (placing the hide on the warm side of the tank of course makes it the most humid). I only use the humid hide when the snake is about to shed. You could mist with a spray bottle to keep the humidity at a more usual percentage if it's very dry. Be sure to keep in mind though that a humid environment is not neccessary for a corn snake, even detrimental to it's health if it's high all the time, so it might be wise to get a reptile hygrometer for monitoring the humidity.

I keep my reptiles in rubbermaid and sterilite containers, so they hold moisture more than something like a glass tank with a mesh top. If you're not using a storage container, you may want to switch as that will also help with the relative humidity in the animal's enclosure. This way even having just the water bowl in the tank should suffice. Alternatively, you could put plexiglass or saran over part of the lid to help hold in moisture.

I just mist mine occasionally. Esp when they're going to shed. My corns and milk usually hide under the water bowl so I think a humid hide would be a waste of time for me. They are doing just fine.

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If your gonna use a humid hide just use it during shed time.That much humidity all the time will likely cause scale rot.