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Just wondering how to keep him from being so dry. When he goes into his hide he gets so dry. I keep the humidity up, I've put a small humidifyer in the room and still pretty dry. He soaks a lot so it isn't very noticeable....until he stays out for a bit. Any ideas? I live in WY so its pretty dry in the winter here...

try putting some moss in the hide and keep it damp

I suggest using one of those corner reptile soaking bowls or a one of those sturdy hard plastic water catchers they use under potted plants. You can viirtually use anything depending on the size. I've even used pen trays from kmart/walmart for juviniles. To keep the humidity up while they are outside of the dish simply place an aertor stone in the dish connected to a small fish-aquarium style air pump. I have a very small one and I've used T's to feed the air tubing into three air stones. So it makes humdity in my three different sweater boxes.

Also placing the soaking dish over, or under the area your supplying heat will bring up the humidity a little, plus it keeps their water at around 80'dgs or so.

Some Candoia are natural born soakers, while others will stay out and only use the water infrequently. One of my females will spend 80% of her time in the water, the other spends about 80% of her time outside of water.

Don't worry, they know how to find water. Especially if that little aerator stone is bubbling at the surface creating fine mist.

As the other poster said, you can use reptarium moss (available at pet stores) and soak that in water before scattering it in the cage. They love it, and will hide beneath it. It probably mimics moist leaf litter in function.

In the pic you can see the setup for one of my Viper boa's. I prolly went a little overkill with the moss and later took some of it out.. but you can use as much or as little as you like. They seem to enjoy people able to burry in it.