humidity problem

I bought some peet mose for Artemis and to raise the humidity i put some water in it and the humidity exploded is that a bad thing or should I try to lower it.

What's it sitting at now? I changed substrate on my rose and she was't to happy about the moistness and hung out on the walls until it had dried out a tad.

basically 100% it just says high I can't really do anything aout it except take here out and open up the top to let it escape quicker

Yeah do that - and keep it on the dry side - Rose's are form a very arid region and don't appreciate moistness much at all anyway.

yeah I went ahead and switched from the rubermaid to a glass 10 gallon and left the screen un-taped. A guide says to keep humidity at around 75 to 80%. She did what yours did and climbed up the side or hanged out on the top of the hide.

Don't know how detrimental it will be that humid (though watching them dance up off the substrate lets us knwo they sure don't appreciate it) - I am aiming to recreate the arid non-humid near desert conditions for this species - there are indeed a good number of trpocal tarantulas needing high humidity but every reference I can find urges dryness - they hail from the borders of the Atacama desert and maybe occasionally if they are lucky they will get moisture form a bank of fog rolling in.

i keep my rose hair enclosure pretty dry too. i just keep a dish of shallow water available at all times and she will go and drink from it when she is thirsty. i've never seen her "dance" but it sounds kinda funny. :D

When I put her back in after changing substrate she looked like a barefoot kid on hot asphalt popping those legs up in turn until she figured she could crawl up onto her hide.

why isn't you're T in you're little houshold link.

I have yet to get decent pics of them . . and then update the page . . . time is money and I be broke! But you've fueled a new fire of resolve!