Humidity

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Originally Posted by oopslala

I currently have foil on each side with a hole in the middle for the heat lamp to shine down. Is putting moss in the hides, as a place for him to balance his humidity with terrarium humidity at 30% acceptable? That seems kind of wrong to me.

I also looked at that humidifier on amazon, it along with all the others had reviews at best of 3.5 average, which I don't think is good enough.

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Use the search bar up top for "humidifier" or "mister". I saw a few posts on this recently. My humidity was at 30% in a 55gallon with the top covered in foil. I added four Dixie cups of moss that was "soaked", two near the hot spot and two on the opposite end. It bumped my humidity up to 50-60% and I can mist morning and night just once to bump it if need be.

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Originally Posted by KMG

During a shed I actually soak the moss and put it in dripping wet. Then I just mist it to keep it damp. When not in shed I will sometimes soak it and then let it dry out and other times I will just give it a good spray.

The cheap bottles are fine. I just found that they didn't last that long and really just frustrated the hell out of me when they start to mess up. They certainly can work though. That nice one I bought is a dream though and I should have bought it sooner.

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Hmm, I guess whenever my spray bottle bites the dust I will have to try one out, because it seems that I'm going to have to be misting his tank every winter since the air gets so dry here. I have a feeling that in the summer I'm going to be trying to keep it down, haha. I'm also going to try putting small cups of the moss soaked in there to help, because I spray it 2 hours later it's dry and humidity has dropped back to like 35-37.