Driftwood, and other extras

BTW. Imma use the pine mulch i got in the yard this spring. I picked up a 3cubic foot bag of cypress and baked 8 pans of it for about 25 minutes on 225 degrees (till it was dry) then let it cool down before putting it in her tank. She loves it. Immediately after i put it in she was out exploring around. But the humidity is still kinda low. Do you guys actaully pour water on the mulch (making it damp/wet???) to hold humidity or what?

Thanks

-Chris

Cool ... exploding rocks! I never heard of that before, but my only experience with rock boiling is the story "Stone Soup" LOL. I did know about the turkey dangers, though, and am just waiting for a particular idiot I work with to try it.

yeah I found out about the flaming turkey in the newspaper the day after thanksgiving... aparently someone 3 blocks over was deep frying their turkey (I've never had deep fried turkey, but heard its AMAZING) and the turkey wasn't thawed out totally, and it shot out and landed on the roof (You deep fry them outside for safety reasons like this lol) and caught on fire, and burned like 2/3 of their house down.

-Chris

Wow. That's a heck of a turkey velocity. There's a guy I work with who is realllly gadgetty and he smokes and fries turkeys as well as making jerky and having little wandering robot cameras rolling around his house.

Rolling robot cams are awesome! (I've never actually seen any, but the concept is so Jetsons!)

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Originally Posted by Andariel

But the humidity is still kinda low. Do you guys actaully pour water on the mulch (making it damp/wet???) to hold humidity or what?

Thanks

-Chris

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I wouldn't pour water on it. Wet substrate can cause blistering and scale rot. You could try a humidifier set up near the cage to get the ambient humidity up. Or just mist the cage once in a while, especially during a shed. Or just provide a humid hide during a shed.

And if you have a screen top, be sure to block off most of the screen with saran wrap or contact paper or something. That'll help hold in the moisture.

It is, isn't it? He's a genius and assembles things like that out of spare parts from work. He's not the same guy I expect would try to fry a frozen turkey, btw.