Justin,
I have a glass tank and my humidity level sucked real bad. I installed a UTH, got rid of the heat lamp and don't use any light except for what comes through the window across the room. I covered three sides of the tank and did the screen top similar to THIS. The difference is I did the treatment to a piece of cardboard I cut to fit over the screen and did that foil treatment to the cardboard and then placed the cardboard over the screen. For the "window" you see in the center of the foil treatment, I just kept one of the corners open and added a piece of plexiglass to that corner (free moving). Now I can move that plexi open and closed if I need to adjust any temps or humidity. The cool side stays at around 81 degrees - 51% humidity and warm side is around 90 degrees - 60% humidity. The only heat source is coming from the UTH. I also have two of the ACURITE digital readers and I bought ONE OF THESE to control the temp of the UTH. It didn't take long at all to get the temps and humidity to where it is good to go. It's been about 3 weeks and everything is still good to go.
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