humidity problem

[daftperception]

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.

[Smulkin]

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.

[daftperception]

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

[Smulkin]

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.

[daftperception]

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.

[Smulkin]

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.

[mlededee]

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.

[Smulkin]

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.

[daftperception]

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

[Smulkin]

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!