Now after you have measured how fast the water evaporates. You now should think of your snake as the water bowl, because the exact same thing is happening to the snake.

Now the bad part. If you do that a few times, you will see white stuff in the water bowl. That's calcium/salts, It will keep building up. Back to your snake, as your snake keeps losing that same water thru its skin and respiration those same products are being deposited inside your snake. Which results in gout, both visceral and skeletal. It builts up in the kidneys and causes kidney failure. Which to the average keeper is having a very healthy snake(looking) die.
please take the time to test this. The advanced test would be including the snake and observing which one does the best.

I am sure your getting the picture. The constant watering and misting, are leaving calcium/salts/minerals in your cage and in your snake. The truth is, your snake can process some of that, just not a lot of that.
The language of snakes. If a normal land dwelling snake sits in water, it means its A. Hot, B. dehydrated
If a snake needs to be soaked in order to shed normally(one piece normally) then its dehydrated.
If it needs to be soaked to look healthy, then its not healthy, its dehydrated.
If a normal snake refuses food when temps are good, chances are, its dehydrated.
If a otherwise healthy snake regurgitates partially digested food, its most likely dehydrated. Again, I hope this helps. Once you limit dehydration, snake keeping is so very easy and fun. Best wishes

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