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In my glass 30gal terrarium that my two snakes are in, i was having trouble keeping the humidity up especially with a screen top. Everyone told me to put a larger water dish in and cover the top of the screen to keep the moisture in, as well as putting an under tank heater under the water dish to help even more! Well long story short i did those things with little success and still had to mist constantly to keep it up. Well I had two high watt UV bulbs in there heating it, through misshap one bulb wasn't turned on and i figured out that i was basically cooking all the humidity out of the air!!! It would stay around 86 in there with both bulbs, and so with only one of the bulbs going at a time the temp somehow stayed the same and the humidity finally without the extra radiant heat nd everything else i had done, it had a chance i guess to exist and now, with out misting, eventhough i still do once a day it stays 87degrees and 53% Humidity at all times as long as i keep the water bowls filled up.
Perhaps this will help someone diagnose their humidity porblem and look at it from a different approach b/c no one when i had these questions suggested this could have been my problem. Good Luck and I have two water bowls, one is full of humidifying moss, a under tank heater under that bowl, a cover over the back screen (A piece of cardboard) and one less heat bulb to achieve those perameters, so you might have to change everything and not just one thing. Hope this helps someone.
Perhaps this will help someone diagnose their humidity porblem and look at it from a different approach b/c no one when i had these questions suggested this could have been my problem. Good Luck and I have two water bowls, one is full of humidifying moss, a under tank heater under that bowl, a cover over the back screen (A piece of cardboard) and one less heat bulb to achieve those perameters, so you might have to change everything and not just one thing. Hope this helps someone.
