If you had the issue above what would you do?
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I live in southwestern Indiana — during the winter the humidity is around 20%, during the summer it goes up to 40%-60%. I’ve never really had any issues with it being too humid, so this isn’t something I would have any experience with. I do have a humidifier in my reptile room to help keep it in the upper range so all my snakes can be more comfortable.
Rather than a tabletop dehumidifier, you might have to look into a bigger one or multiple smaller ones to bring down the humidity in the whole room, because it’s likely an environmental thing over an issue with the enclosure itself.
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50% humidity is totally fine, anywhere from 30% - 60% is good for them. I live in the Vancouver (BC) area, where it’s always humid. If you want to lower your humidity, you may want to consider a smaller water dish. I found that our 5" water dishes were causing our humidity to skyrocket, so I swapped them for 3" ones and haven’t had issues since
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Hello!
Not a hognose expert, but I am a zoology major in college. Usually animals in the wild (particularly cold blooded ones) will move around their environment to maintain the correct humidity and temperature. So even though the humidity of the whole area may spike, the animal will move to places where the humidity is lower if they are uncomfortable. It’s also possible that these humidity spikes are evened out by drier periods so even if the animal doesn’t get the ideal humidity that day or even week, they might make up for it later. Long term exposure to high humidity could be the problem with having higher humidity in a captive environment. It’s generally better to be safe than sorry so giving your animal a drier enclosure with a humid hide would probably best replicate their natural environment. That way they can increase or decrease their humidity as needed just like you have a temperature gradient so they can increase or decrease their temperature as needed.
Again, not a hognose expert, just making an educated guess informed by what I’ve learned in class 
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I am a long term keeper and what you have said makes a ton of sense. Or should I say “common” sense. Folks get so caught up in exact numbers regarding heat and humidity that imho they start to overthink things and then begin to stress for no good reason!
Great job! Keep on learning!!! 
