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I was wondering if you guys had any tips that have worked for you to keep the humidity up in your terrarium?

Thanx!

Misting

add a second water dish on warm side on top of uth

cover top with: duct tape, pegboard or saran wrap (leave opening for lights and a little ventilation, etc)

cover top with damp towel

add a Tropic-Aire Humidifier w/ air pump (use air pump rated for a larger tank than what you have)

The best and easiest solution is to add a humid hide (plastic dish with access hole cut in lid and fill with damp spaghum moss)- if your snake will use it then you don't have to worry about the humidity in the rest of the tank.
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i put wet towels on the top of my terrarium and it shot the humidity up 30%, its now at about 65% Thanks a lot for the suggestion!!!

Glad to hear it worked! Just be sure there's a little gap for ventilation.

Best of luck!
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That's a very good suggestion using the wet towels on top! I just started doing that myself and it's working great! I don't even have to mist in mine to keep the humidity up in there now where before I was misting like crazy and I still couldn't keep it up! Good tip Tiger, thanks!

I use cypress mulch. It works very well for humidity. If it is still clean and gets dried out I just spray it with water.

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