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I use the Holmes cool air humidifier. My only complaint about it is when it is running full tilt there is a fogginess to the air and a white residue that gets on things.

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Merlin,
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That sounds like disolved minerals in your tap water maybe? What level of humidity does it maintain?

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You are talking about humidity in your apartment and not directly in your enclosures right?

But from what I have read about the 'room' humidifiers is that the walgreen's sunbeam brand one is by far the best.

I figured it was the minerals and at the rate it kicks water out it would break me to go out and keep buying distilled!
I have no trouble getting the humidity up as high as 50-60%+
If I leave it going full tilt it will put so much moisture in the air you get a definate swamp atmosphere to the apt!

Of course in cold weather then you end up with a layer of ice on the window and can't see out of it!

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chronicfatigue- most of my enclosures have screen tops so they are greatly affected by the humidity in the apt. since they are all heated, which is why I put the overall humidity up plus I don't have any truely arid animals and I just make sure the geckos and the bullsnake are not "swampy" and uncomfortable. I also vary humidity in individual cages by messing with the ventilation and size of water dish and whether or not I put the dish on the heat source or not. The BP cage is kind of a challenge because my grandfather made me a solid wood nested lid for it. I'm no good at humidity so I don't have a Brazilian Rainbow Boa or a blood python.....yet

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I ran into the problem of too much humidity in one room and I had mold running rampant in the closet. Better air circulation is the key I think...with a warm air humidifier I can keep the humididty at almost 65%. The room is 8'x8', during the winter I keep it at 85-90 during the day, I use a small space heater (ceramic) for that and my Wd enclosure has a 100W spot light in it.

Anyone know of any other thing to get and keep the humidity up? I know it should be higner than it is but am at a loss to what else can be done. I was thinking moss? draped from the top of the enclosure?

Take care,
thanks
Chris

Maybe try the wet towel on the lid trick?

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"A BOA CONSTRICTOR IS A Boa constrictor!"

The wet towel worked somewhat, raised it by about 10%. I think I'm going to get some moss to soak and drape inside the enclosure. Thanks!

Take care,
Chris

i know its old but ill post anyways I used a plexiglass piece the same size of my tank drilled 8 holes into it and put tht on and the my screen top over it and the humidity jumped from 67% to 93% in the matter of about 1 1/2 hours

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