Hi all. I've been having trouble with humidity in my current terrarium. I have a young corn snake so my understanding is his humidity should be in the range of 50%-70% (maybe more?). Right now it's averaging very low at around 20%.
Current setup
This terrarium:
https://www.amazon.com/REPTI-ZOO-Bac...ef_=ast_sto_dp
Heating source: heat lamp during day, black ceramic lamp at night
Attempts at controlling humidity: lots of phagnum moss, constant misting, creating a humidity hide w/ phagnum moss, tinfoil on the open mesh parts to reduce humidity loss
Photo:
https://ibb.co/ypdQtPq
My suspicion is that a lot of the humidity is leaking through the top mesh lid and the mesh on the sides. No matter what I do the humidity doesn't improve much and on average stays around 20% or so. I did get some improvement with the tinfoil blocking the openings above but obviously that's a stupid/temporary solution and I really need a different terrarium. I imagine the heat lamp dries things out a bit in combination with this.
Anyone have any good suggestions?
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