My corn snakes humidty has dropped down to around 35% and I keep misting it but it would only raise up to about 45 or so then would drop down later. My temps are 80-85 on the warm side and 75 on the cool with aspen substrate. Any ideas on what to do?

How about adding a wide shallow dish of water on his warm side to speed up evaporation and hopefully give you a bump in humidity?

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Also, if the entire lid is screen, you can cover up half of it with plastic or glass in an attempt to boost humidity without sacrificing ventilation. Use it in combination with Lacey's idea and I would think you'd see some good results.

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Ok guys I was going to answer the same thing, but you beat me to the punch line. I also have the corns in sterlite container instead of aquariums and we don't seem to have a humidity problem. Not pretty but it works.

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I keep my baby boas in sterilite containers and just drill holes in the top and a few in the sides, their humidity stays rite around 70% Maybe its something you should consider.Good luck!

Yep, that's what I used to do when I had my snakes....between partially covering the screen and using a wider flatter water dish than I initially had, my humidity maintenance problems went away completely.

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Corn snakes are a very hardy species so are pretty forgiving if you don't get their conditions spot on, and living in such varied habitats in the wild can also thrive well in varied conditions. Humidity certainly shouldn't be a problem for Corns; they don't require high humidity like a blood python for example, but can live well with different humidity levels. Sorry if I've missed something, but I'm a little confused why your Corns enclosure needs to be more humid than it is?

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I don't know about Tippman357, but my corns would occasionally have incomplete sheds if the humidity dropped as low as 35 percent or lower. That's why I used to have to bring mine up a bit. Like you said though, Bitis, in general corns are VERY forgiving when it comes to conditions.

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There is that of course Juliane - a lot of snakes can have poor sheds if the humidity is too low, however we've never personally had any problems with any of our corns shedding. Our general humidity levels in the house are 30-50% though, depending on the outside weather of course. I don't think a consistent 70% is good for corns at all though - it's way too high and can cause respiratory problems. That level of humidity is more suited to blood pythons, rainbow boas and so on - species that are from a more tropical environment naturally, though even for rainbow boas it is a tad on the high side as a constant.

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OK guys, i did boost my humidity to 50 and it stays there so thats good. I was just trying to keep it in the proper humidty levels thats all