My humidity has gone dangerously low, around the 30's in the past day or two. I'm having the worst time trying to get it up. I've got a water bowl in the tank, which is a 20 gallon, heat lamp, which doens't help the humidity either.

Could it be the paper towels i have as her substrate? Absorbing any humidity in the air?

I've done all i can do to get this humidity up, besides ditching the heat lamp, i don't have enough money to order some flexwatt and get a big expensive tstat or what not.

I have a pretty large plastic bin available to me as well, i was maybe thinking about cutting a circle in the bin top and putting some of the screen top under the hole and letting the heat lamp chill on top of that. It's got a plastic top so humidity wouldn't be a problem with that i dont think.

I'm going up to the store today for a rat, so she can feed.



What kind of bulb would you reccomend for night time and day time use?????