Humidity and Glass Tanks.. Lovely.

[CoolioTiffany]

Best substrates to use for Chinese Water Dragons?

I have him in a 20g long just temporarily, and he does have stuff to climb on so it's not like he has to stay on the ground. He is a rescue that I adopted and has probably 8 inches of his tail left and not many spines on his back, but he does have some on his cresent. However, he has no missing toes, and probably two missing toe nails. He isn't too big though, so definitely not an adult.

I have to go through the whole humidity problem with glass tanks again. Next week I'm going to try to get a 20g tall enclosure so he has more climbing space. And I will be getting more logs for him to climb on. But I had to tape all of the screen lid besides where the big ass double heat lamp is with his UVB and basking bulb. I mist it a lot when I see it a bit dry, and he is on cypress mulch.

I'm most likely going to put him on sphagnum (sp?) peat moss, it's like 8 bucks for a huge bag at Home Depot and it is a lot easier for me to keep the enclosure humid with that substrate.

Would it be alright if I used the sphagnum peat moss, but if not what are other substrates I can use that would be great to use? I need the enclosure to be like in the 60%-75% humidity range, oh goodie.

At work the moss stays nice and moist all the time, so I'm most likely going to use it. Sorry for the long thread, just had to give you some of the info and my question that needed to be answered.

[gp_dragsandballs]

Get some eco earth and mix it with peat moss. Works great. And id skip the 20 tall and get a 29, it has the length of the 20 long but the height of the 20 tall.

[CoolioTiffany]

Get some eco earth and mix it with peat moss. Works great. And id skip the 20 tall and get a 29, it has the length of the 20 long but the height of the 20 tall.

I'll look into that tank, but there is a tank at my dad's house that he does not use and wants to get rid of and since my lizard is arboreal it would be perfect, he doesn't normally move as much as I think he should. He just sits in one spot where I put him most of the time. Right now he's on my shoulder and he's wide awake. He just doesn't move, I'll put him anywhere in the enclosure as well and he'll stay there for a good amount of time.

[wafisherman]

They like to climb, so provide stuff to climb and move around on. A good high up basking spot on both the cool end and one on the warm end. Mine prefer chilling out in the cool hide most of the time and only come to the hot basking spot to warm up on occassion - usually right after swimming...

Eco-earth is fine. They will eat susstrate - so keep an eye on that. If you have a good water dish in there for swimming, and the temps are correct, I would not be too concerned with humidity. You may want to cover the top of the tank though, like for a BP with 80% covered and enough open for some ventilation.