Misting for Humidity ?

Seems simple, but I thought I'd ask.. When using an glass tank with reptile carpet, where do you spray? Just spray down the back wall or where? I read about getting the substrate to wet and belly rot is why I asked.

You can lightly mist the substrate. As long as it's not soaking or has standing moisture, you're fine.

For tanks you can do a few things to help with the humidity:
1) cover 90% of the lid with tin foil, a damp towel, or plexiglass.
2) use a large water dish
3) move water dish to the hot side of the enclosure
4) you can try a different substrate such as coco husk or cypress mulch. These two hold humidity in really well.

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Originally Posted by satomi325

You can lightly mist the substrate. As long as it's not soaking or has standing moisture, you're fine.

For tanks you can do a few things to help with the humidity:
1) cover 90% of the lid with tin foil, a damp towel, or plexiglass.
2) use a large water dish
3) move water dish to the hot side of the enclosure
4) you can try a different substrate such as coco husk or cypress mulch. These two hold humidity in really well.

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Thanks, we we're just trying to use the carpet since I paid for it.. It was working all week, but today it dropped to 47%.. A little low, so I picked up a water bottle and some distilled water

I don't think 47% is bad unless the BP is in shed. Mine stays around 40-50 pretty much all of the time without issue. Do you have an analog dial hygrometer? Those things can be way off.

carpets are bacteria sponges.

If your looking for higher humidity in a tank you have to cover a good portion of the top to trap it in.
Using a humid hide is imo preferential to spraying a tank down.

Spraying a tank jacks the humidity up and then it comes back down until you spray again.
What you get is high humidity then low humidity then high humidity over and over and over.

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Originally Posted by captainjack0000

I don't think 47% is bad unless the BP is in shed. Mine stays around 40-50 pretty much all of the time without issue. Do you have an analog dial hygrometer? Those things can be way off.

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We have a digital one.. It's just the one from Wal-mart with the probe.. Can't think of the brand right now though, it has humidity and temp