Heat lamps vs Space Heater

[winterjolt]

I'm currently using a heat lamp in my terrarium but I find I have absolutely no humidity. I mist all the time, and im even using cypress mulch. I'm only using a heat lamp to bump up the ambient temps by like a 8-10 degrees. Should I still keep the heat lamp, or get a space heater?

[winterjolt]

I should also add on one side of the lamp I put aluminum foil and a wet towel on the opposite side. Still no luck

[AnnaK231]

Can you post pictures of your set up? What wattage bulb are you using? Have you tried sphagnum moss or putting the water dish directly under the light (and or getting a bigger water dish)?

What's the room temperature where the cage is at?

[winterjolt]

Im not at home right now so i cant exactly get pictures. My bulb is 100 watt, and is in the center. I have a UTH on the left side with the hot spot being 90°. My cool side is 80-81°. I have a really large water dish sitting under the heat lamp. I haven't used moss yet but that was going to be my next try. I know one of my hides gets really humid inside, like 60%. My room is sort of cold being winter where I live. Some where between 60-67°. Everything is fine (temps), but my humidity sits at 20%. :/

[Sauzo]

Are you covering the whole top? I have thick cardboard cut to fit completely over the top of the screen and then I cut a 11" hole in the center to fit a 10" dome with a CHE over a large water bowl and then I wrapped the cardboard with tin foil and my humidity is around 60%. It sounds like you got too much airflow. If you use humid hides when they shed, you should be fine with the shedding but I'm not sure how long term effects of low humidity would affect something like their lungs drying out. I mean I might be over thinking it but I try and allow the majority of my red tail boa and ball pythons cage time to be 50-60% humidity. My boa spends a lot of time out of her cage though and our house humidity is only around 30%ish so who knows. Just food for thought.

[AnnaK231]

I have a heat lamp with two 75 watt infrared bulbs inside going on timers (acting like a thermostat until I get one) and a little space heater running to keep the room at 70-73 degrees. I just added four Dixie cups full of moss and it bumped my humidity up by 5% or so. It sits around 57-65% now. We've got foil covering 90% of the top too. Just enough holes in the foil for airflow. I might be switching to a CHE instead of the two bulbs but I'm not 100% I want to yet. There's no UTH right now because he's healing and I don't want to change too much at one time.

* I did have a 100watt infrared bulb and it was harder to maintain the humidity. Is your light on a thermostat dimmer at all?
* if your room temps are sitting at 60-67 and it's a glass tank I would definitely get some blue insulation board for 3 sides of the tank and use a small space heater to bump up the room temps. I read somewhere that warmer air holds more humidity.

oh and what are you using to read temps/humidity?