Humidity whoas....

[Andariel]

I'm stumped. I've tried everything I can think of and I can't keep her humidty stable without multiple mistings a day. I've tried placement of heat lamps vs the water bowl, I've gotten a bigger waterbowl (the water is evaporating so thats atleast working). I've even tried making every inch of much damp (then flipping it and repeating. But within 3-4 hours the humidity drops back down again to 35% (stabalizes there). The ambient humidity of the room is 63-65%ish.

My only other idea is to get a fogger or something. But would ground level fog be harmful to her? Would I be better off to mailorder a mister or something?

Anyone have any other suggestions?? Incase you don't remember its a 40 gallon breeder tank with about 1 1/2-2" of Cypress Muclch. a large human heating pad on high. The water bowl is on the heating pad side of the tank, as is a cave hide. Her favorite kleenex box however is on the cooler side of the tank. The hot side has a 100W CHE and holds ambient temps at snake level (2-4" off the ground) at 90degrees, and the cool side has a 50W red repti bulb (that i currently have turned off to see what effect that has on temps/humidity). The cool side ambients are 83-85 degrees.

Thanks.

-Chris

[Mike]

did you try getting rid of the light and just using the heat pad? and putting the water bowl over the heat pad? try using putting in more substrate...maybe use two water bowls.

[steelsack]

You need a water pump in your dish, IMO
Mine works quite well, I use glass, too.......
Will? Where you at? Any more words on your reptiflo? Works great, doesn't it?
Look at our albums.......

[steelsack]

Oh yeah, please please post pics of your setup in your albums....am curious. They are as fun to look at as the animals themselves 8)

[Wizill]

retpifloooooo.

[Andariel]

My tank setup pics are in my album, I also moved my old pics to a seperate album so it'll be easier to find stuff.

[Marla]

And if you don't want to remove the lamp as Mike suggested, you could certainly drop the wattage to 40 or even 15. It will put out a lot less heat, and if you need to bump up temp just add another heat pad or bump that one up to high but put a layer (or thicker layer) of newspaper under the mulch.

[Andariel]

what kinda reptiflow do u have? is that the little water bubble thing? I don't really like those, but if thats all thats available i guess it'll have to do huh?

Can you take pics of urs will?

-Chris

[Andariel]

How do you guys use just heating pads and maintain temps???? I've removed one and both lights and covered damn near the entire top in duct tape and cranked the heating pad up to high and the temps plummit to like 70ish (Ambient room temp)??

-Chris

[Andariel]

Well I just put a second heating pad under her tank and set it to medium. The original one (the one in the pics in my tank album) is on high, and I removed the CHE. So I'm using two UTH's and a 50W Red Repti bulb. So I'll be runnin back and forth every so often checking out temp's.

-Chris