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Ok, so I live in Calgary, Alberta, and it is a very dry climate here. So I was wondering if I should be doing anything special to keep the humidity up? She is a snow corn snake, and so far seems very content the way everything is. Also if anybody can post a link of FAQ's for snow corn's that would be great. Thanks in advance.

If she's having nice, complete, whole sheds...you are probably just fine. If her sheds are incomplete, in "pieces" or otherwise difficult, then you need to either raise the humidity, or give her a "humid hide" where she can go when she needs it.
It is harder to raise the humidity in a tank with a screen top... The water vapor just goes out the top. Tupperware/Rubbermaid with proper ventilation is easy. The water bowl itself usually keeps it humid enough. A humid hide can be a small plastic container with moist paper towels and a hole big enough for the snake to crawl into, but not through the top. I will sometimes just set an upside down container over a plastic dish and leave the container ajar or hanging off the side for the snake to crawl in. Duffy

I have 2 corns both housed in seperate 20 gallon tanks. I can tell you I live in Arizona so it is very dry here. I don't do any thing special with my corns as far a humidity. I have an UTH with light on in day (goes off at night with timer). They both have 2 water bowls ( only becasue I went on vacation and wanted to make sure they had water), and couple hideing places. With the screen tops I cover half with piece of saran wrap or large baggie to help keep heat and humidity. When they are going to shed I mist down their tanks a couple times and that is it. They always shed nice. I tried one of those humid hides on my python and she wouldn't go near it. So I gave up on that. I just mist them when it's shedding time and they shed completely. This has worked for me for over.

for got to add "year". This has worked for me for over a year and my corns are doing great. They eat and shed fine. Both are on adult mice now and I got them as babies.