what do you need to help get ur snakes cage humid?

Question

i have a red-tailed boa

Answer 1

You can use a misting machine made for reptile habitats or a squirt bottle and spray the habitat yourself.

Answer 2

I'm having the same problem with my boa's cage, I mist it everyday but still can't get the humidity past 50-60%,I also have a large bowl of water on the warm side and half the screen top covered and nothing seems to work, so today I'm just going to go to the pet store see if I can find one of these misting machine things people are talking about. Good luck!

Answer 3

Some ideas:

- Cover most of the air vents or top of the tank to build up humid air and heat inside the cage. The downside of this is that it adds to the 'sick air syndrome' if the air does not replenish often.

- In-cage misting system works great as long as it is properly tuned so it does not make things wet. Misting plants helps as they offer a lot of evaporative surface area, and can absorb any excess.

- A buddy made what I thought was the coolest ever heater/humidifier... he rigged up a container made up of screening, put a waterproof hot rock in the container, surrounded the container with shredded cyrpus or mosses, then rigged up a jug over the cage to s-l-o-w-l-y drip into the cyprus. He balanced the drips so the cyrpus stayed a bit damp and warm at all times.

- I have seen (but cannot put my hands on) plans for rigging up a special 'air conditioner' for humidity-loving herps where you build a box, suck in air through a simple filter, run it past a ceramic heater, then use a humidifier to moisten the air, then blow it into the snake cage.

- You can use basic physics, combined with some snake psychology and rig up a cage that is totally sealed and insulated on the top 2/3rds of the cage to create a nice big pocket of warmed, humid air and put the fresh air vents low on the sides.

Answer 4

Misting machine, Cypress Mulch holds humidity well, Large Water Bowl on warm side of tank, buy a misting water bottle, make a humid hide with moist sphagnum moss.

These are all great ways to raise the humidity.

Also, using UTH (Under Tank Heaters) will help raise the humidity levels if the cypress has been misted or water bowl.

Answer 5

I made a large bubbling water bowl by drilling a small hole about half an inch from the bottom and take a reg aquarium air line and push it in the hole and connect it to a fish tank aerator. There you go, it helps keep the water fresh and bring up th humidity. I also use Eco earth and live plants. the roots hold water in the soil and if you get those plants with the vines that stretch out and grow on their own it helps also.

Answer 6

I would build a big aquarium mad of Plexiglases and wood. Some sort of wood that wont suck up allot of moister. Aquarium big enough for a small water pond and put a water Prof heat-rock under the water pond and have good ventilation and have some tree branches. Snakes like to clime and have light .

Answer 7

Julia is absolutely right. Just remember to mist the cage, not drench it. . .