Ok guys I don't want the title to sound bad. I am pretty new for the most part, but over the last year I feel like I've really learned alot. The first addition to my collection was 6 snakes and quickly added a seventh. Those seven have been doing absolutely beautifully. Then mid summer I picked up two more. They were doing well. Anyway a week ago I got an opportunity for a good deal. So I picked 5 new snakes and purchased an open CB 70 Rack. Anyway these are the changes I've had. So far all the larger snakes are doing well, but then again none of them have shed. I put my bumble bee, which was doing well until the move, into a CB-70 she's fairly small only about 250g. She was the first one to shed and gave the first nasty shed I've had in this year. BTW she one of the mid summer purchases. Now with all the new snakes this is what I have. The mojave threw a shed as nasty as the bee and the the two het for pieds are hiding under their paper alot. I pulled one of the het for pieds out and it seemed completely dumb founded I laid it upside down and it didn't really move at all. It wasn't like a limp snake or anything, but just didn't move and seemed to be breathing heavy. I think what has happened is I bit off a little more than I could chew at one time, but I want to work through it.

Obviously my humidity is way to low. I've done everything that I possibly could. I've got a humidifier running in the room 24/7 and I've got himid hides in the bee, mojave, and a het for alb that's in blue right now, but it just doesn't seem to be working.

And now I'm super paranoid that I'm not going to get the humidity right. The only thing I have going for me is that around march the humidity around here will spike right back up to 40-60%, but I'd like to get things fixed in the mean time.

All the bigger snakes seem to be fine, but the smaller snakes in the cb-70s seem to be having the problems. My plan is to switch the cages to shoebox tubs if nothing seems to get better by next week.

Next issue is that I've had the new snakes for over a week now and I haven't even been able to attempt to feed. And I'm paranoid that if I move them to a different tub in the mean time that it's going to push feeding back even more. Anyway sorry for the rant here just had a bad night of snake husbandry and not feeling real good about things right now. Can someone give me something positive to think about and any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike
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