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sorry guys and girls for bothering you again, but i don't know anymore, how to raise humid level!
it should be above or around 60% but all i can get is around 40%
well it get higher when i turn on the fogger and spray tank with water but this helps for 1 hour max!!
i also have water bowl on the undertank heater!
2 days ago i sealed glass door with flexible sealing strip,so humid can't get out of the tank!but it's still not enough!
so please write me suggestions how to raise humid level!!!
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1.0.0 Ball python (Oz)
0.0.1 Hardwicki Uro (Amon)
0.1.0 Black cat (Tomika)

What are you using to measure your humidity?

digital thermometer which is also hydrometer
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1.0.0 Ball python (Oz)
0.0.1 Hardwicki Uro (Amon)
0.1.0 Black cat (Tomika)

I read your post below you have few issues you have to resolve.

First, your inquiry for a bp care sheet, check out proexotics snake pro-pack at proexotics.com and or care sheets from NERD.
You should have gotten the care sheet prior to purchasing the ball, but that is neither here nor there.

Second, that fogger works actually in combination not just with heat but electrical current that atomizes the water to its vapor form. Small current but if your snake ever sits or touches that copper panel in the fogger it can shock and or burn him severely. Trust me I have seen it on many animals, monitors and snakes alike with people that used it for humidity. The animal may not do it today maybe not tomorrow but it will end up touching that thing and you don't want to see the results.

Lastly, below I read you have "fake grass" in the tank, as in astro turf? That is your major problem. Proper ball husbandry says to keep your balls on either cypress mulch, aspen bedding, and or paper towels. The "fake grass" is where you humidity problem lies, its plastic like which means any mist your vaporizer gets on it quickly evaporates into the air and out the tank because it's not porous, it doesn't hold moisture long enough and efficiently enough.

So here is the simple solution and you will be very happy with the results. One, dump the fogger leave his water bowl alone and clean no things in it. Two, dump the "fake grass/astroturf" what ever it is and use aspen or cypress mulch. Three, get a second hide and use damp sphagnum moss under it as a humidity chamber spray it every other day so the water beads on the sides of the hide and that will make the proper humidity and keep it centralized so the animal can choose what and how it needs. Trust me during times of shedding you will see the snake in the hide more often then not. Leave the second hide dry and normal on the bedding. Once a day with a good misting bottle spray the bedding if you still feel your humidity is low. But remember two much all over humidity leads to respitory infections, stress, and blister disease. A stable high humidity chamber is fine and all you need. Even if that hide hits the hi 80% humidity it's centralized and then snake can come and go there as it pleases for however long it needs.

Best of luck.
Read those care guides.
JC

well, that was a great reply!
so, i decided so return the fogger!
next thing is to buy some cypress mulch!i think i'll buy it today!
i'm concerned because my BP has been sheddinf for over a week!
it never took so long before!
he has 3 hides but uses only one all the time!
he hides behind his wooden hideout!
do you have any pictures of humidity chamber?

thanx again
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1.0.0 Ball python (Oz)
0.0.1 Hardwicki Uro (Amon)
0.1.0 Black cat (Tomika)

Here is one from the kingsnake photogallery
http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/index.php?photo=788
I mean you can obviously make it more decorative add mulch over the top and stuff to really hide it but you get the idea.
Instructions for making one can be found here http://www.ball-pythons.net/Sections index-req-viewarticle-artid-39-page-1.html

Best of luck

Whe I bought that damn fogger I checked up and down, as I do with anything I put in my enclosures. I kept getting this soft but at the same time growingly strong shock. Even the water that shoots up is a bit charged. I returned it after failing to find a safe method of putting it in my enclosure. Those things are like death traps for BP.

Very useful reply to his origional post.
As I said before. Ask the forum before buying anything. It will save you a ton of money.

-Bill

well i returned it, but they didn't give me money back...
so i bought "jungle earth" which is made especially for reptiles with humidity demands...well it's for BP as well!
so, i think i'll make some adjustments to OZ's tank and i think it eill be today!
i guess it's the smartest way to ask questions on forum...i learned that before but it didn't teach me a lesson till today!
i'll take a picture of newly built tank and post it here!
thanx a lot!
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1.0.0 Ball python (Oz)
0.0.1 Hardwicki Uro (Amon)
0.1.0 Black cat (Tomika)