tried newspaper, it didn't change anything. Humidity still stuck at around 40-45. I put another water dish in the cage..I can see all the condensation in the water bowl since its clear and I can see the water level decreasing but to no avail humidity wont budge.
03-31-2008, 10:19 PM
Mike Cavanaugh
Re: My Cage setup
You sure the hydrometer works???!!!!
try unplugging the cool side UTH... You don't need it with a warm side UTH and a CHE. Once you unplug that... you will have the same setup as me... with the exception of that BIG CHE lamp..... do you have the big water bowl under the CHE?
04-02-2008, 10:55 PM
chetman7
Re: My Cage setup
hmmm I'm up at school right now, so I have a different setup somewhat from back home, I got 2 pages of newspaper covering the bottom and just a little layer of aspen on top of it. Probe on my herbstat is right outside his hide on the hot side. As you cans see I tinfoiled the top and i have the smaller lamp CHe up here with me, the big one is previous pictures is back home. It rained up here, so i opened the windows which raised the humidity to 60...the day after, humidity dropped to a staggering 35. I ended up tryin a tropicaire humidifer with pump that i will show in the following pictures.. it broughte humidity up to 53 which is pretty good and the pump isn't on a low setting right now. He definitly notices the change. I handled him for a little while i cleaned out his whole cage and installed everything. I put him back in and for past hour he just sits next to the humidifier output rod. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or bad thing.
Here are the pics, http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...1/CIMG0460.jpg http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...1/CIMG0461.jpg http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...1/CIMG0462.jpg http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...1/CIMG0463.jpg
THe humidifier pump and jug thing was only 50 USD, so I thought it would worth a shot.
04-04-2008, 03:38 PM
drugaria
Re: My Cage setup
your tank looks good, a tip I can give you is to buy some stirofoam panel from Home Depot or wherever and put it around your tank .It makes a whole lot of difference especialy if you live in a cold basement.Also move the waterfall to the hot side of the tank, that will increase the evaporation rate.And if you have still humidity issues switch to Nature Bark substrate (make sure it is heat treated ).The bark holds humidity better than aspen
