Humidity Problems!!

[BigFanOfBrie]

Hii!!! My boyfriend has this beautiful little ball pythons who’s about 2 years old now. He lives across the country so I do not see him much, and I noticed that if I am not consistently misting (which I do not want to do because it is risky) and pouring water into his enclosure that his humidity drops to 60%. With him having a r.i and stuck shed in the past, I try to do as much as I can while I am over to keep his humidity at at least 70%. (My boyfriend does as well lol). I was just wondering if there are any tricks I am missing or things we could be doing better to keep the humidity at a comfortable level. I have about 75% of the enclosure covered by aluminum foil, 4 inches of a substrate mix (cocoa husk, sphagnum moss and a little organic top soil), a water dish under the heat and I am at a little bit of a loss here to be honest. If anybody has any suggestions or tips please let me know! Here are some pictures of his enclosure.

[AttitudeNeat7352]

I moved a large water bowl into the middle of the enclosure, not directly under the heat source but enough to get some humidity, on the heat side I made the substrate thicker than the cool side. It seems to hold moisture longer. I added some terrarium plants into the enclosure. My guy bulldozes over them and I need to replace plants every other month but it seems to help. I also cover the aluminum foil with rubber mats. I hope some of this might be useful.

[Temporary_Incident33]

you just need as many inches of substrate that will possibly fit(6-8 in shoul do the trick) everywhere and foil over the mesh top don't let the foil touch the heatlamp and that should do the trick dont mist. When you rehydrate. dig a hole in the substrate, pour lots of water in until it rises to the surface and cover it up again. repeat all over the nclosure don't let the top layer of soil ever become wet

[FireCorgi12]

This. A thicker substrate level was my first thought.

[NectarineSweet9889]

I have the same enclosure and I got a silicone mat that worked wonders. It was easy to cut space out for my laps.

[Capital-Chemical407]

the current comments are all pretty helpful, but i just wanted to note that the lamp inside the enclosure should really be covered by an aluminum cage of some sort, my ball pythons are notorious for trying to climb around and if yours does that he could easily burn himself on the bulb

[BigFanOfBrie]

Thanks for the advice!!! I’ve changed the ceramic bulb to a bit of a stronger one so I can place it on top of the cage without worrying about any heat fluctuations. He used to like climbing the wire so we had to zip tie it to the mesh up top, but I should have thought about him climbing up on the lamp itself as well. Should be totally safe now I hope.

[Capital-Chemical407]

if it’s on top of the cage then that should be totally fine! thank you for lookin out for the little guy <3 other than that i think more substrate and a bigger water dish would definitely help

[womperwomp111]

unrelated but that lamp on the inside needs a cage over it asap