Using mini humidifier in tank?

[EmiLee]

Hi everyone!
my BP is about to shed in the next few days and I’ve been battling with keeping humidity high. I live in a place where there’s 20% humidity outside so it’s a bit of a challenge. Planning on buying a humidifier for my room however won’t be able to make it here in time plus setting it at 70-80% might be too high to be for my bedroom. I tried the towel idea, covering the screen with aluminum foil. Now to my question: do you think it would be ok to put my mini usb humidifier in his tank temporarily? I’ll attach a photo of it. Looks like a essential oil diffuser but has never been used with anything but pure water. Seems pretty harmless to me and maybe I could prop it with a couple of rocks around it to make sure he wouldn’t tip it over...let me know what you think. So far I’ve been spraying his enclosure like 8 times or more per day to keep humidity up but I have to leave and work at some point today.

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[Craiga 01453]

I'm not sure about those things, never used them. There are plenty of tricks to keep humidity up though. You can add some sphangnum moss, add a larger or second water bowl, etc...

What substrate are you using?

You can also wrap the enclosure in foam board insulation. I do this with all my glass enclosures and it helps immensely with heat and humidity control.

I live in MA and it gets pretty dry for fall and winter. I never have to mist.

[Dorsa]

Hey I think that maybe if you place it outside the tank and have it on a timed outlet so it’s not just on for the entire time it should be okay but I don’t know about putting it inside just because of RI, if your guys going into shed I think a humidity hide is your best option just get a bunch of sphagnum moss or paper towels put them in a container cut a hole and he should use it. Did you consider getting a much larger water bowl, I struggled with humidity too and it helped a lot. I did end up just getting a humidifier and putting a ton of plants in the room close the doors and it’s been okay since.


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[bcr229]

Cover the top with a damp towel, as a dry towel will just absorb the water from the tank.

An easy way to raise humidity in a room is to get a drying rack ($20 at Walmart), run some bath towels, jeans, or anything else with a fairly heavy-weight fabric through the wash, then hang the clean laundry on the rack in the room. You also save money not running the dryer. I do this a lot in the winter but it hasn't been needed recently as we've had an insanely wet spring.

[rufretic]

Screen tops are a nightmare for humidity. The easiest way to keep humidity up in a glass aquarium is to seal it all but a small opening for air. So if you have a screen top you can just get a piece of plexiglas cut to the size of the screen top minus about a 1/2" for air exchange. Once you do this you'll never have humidity issues again, just keep a good size water bowl in there and a good substrate for humidity like reptichip. You may have to rewet the substrate occasionally but most likely less than weekly.