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im having a humidity problem with all my tanks. i cant keep it high enough. summer is fine, they stay high enough, but now that winters coming, i cant get it high enough. i tryed contac paper, and wet towels work decently, but not great and i have to kkeep replacing them. anyone have any suggestions on how i can keep humidity? would it be ok it i put some spungum moss (i think thats what its called) or peet moss in there and left it in there? thx for the help
~Jason~
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If you're contemplating adding sphagnum moss I'd whip up a humid hide (you could always leave the lid off to help the tank overall as well). I recently made one out of a (big plastic) Folger's can - just melted out a large enough entrance and filled with sphagnum that had soaked and been wrung out. I can alternately use or remove the lid - and it has resulted in Kali (oops sorry shoulda mentioned this was for a blood) spending equal time in the humid hide as well as the water bowl - where previously she had nearly taken up permanent residence (temps ok, no mites, hum% not too bad).
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You could always up the humidity in the room where your tanks are. A room humidifier would keep the humidity in the room nice and high and therefore your tanks nice and humid.
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led, i tried that. it didnt work. can i just put the moss in the tank?
~Jason~
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A room humdifier didn't work, or are you talking about the small DIY tank one?
I'm shocked that a room humidifier wasn't enough.
You can put sphagnum moss directly in the tank to help with humidity.
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the room humidifirer didnt. it raised it 1 or 2% but nothing significant
~Jason~
0.1 BCI-Adrian
1.0 Burm-Homer
1.0 Tiger Retic-Buster
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"If you give up before you try, then you never really wanted it in the first place."
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http://photobucket.com/albums/v708/BCImperator11/
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I'd keep the moss off everything else and contained - just a lot neater. Even just having that in there with no lid on it would allow the sphagnum to up the humidity in the enclosure pretty significantly. Worth a shot. Smynx recently bought a little humidifier for her area and it works well enough as it is almost a small seperate room - down here it's wide open and gas heat so I'll have my hands full in that regard as well.
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Smulkin is right about how messy the moss can be.
I gave up on the moss, but the room humidifer works wonders for me.
Also, I plan on getting other herps eventually that will require high humidity, so it wasn't an issue. Plus, I already had the humdifier and the airwasher keeps the air clean and moist in the rest of my place.
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i have a 10 x 10 herp room and a small $20.00 humidifier keeps my room easily in the mid 70%
vaughn
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do your enclosures have screen tops? cause if so you could try something simple like a wet towel on top, then something like glad warp over the towel to help seal it in
odds are you already tried that, cause i read the wet towel use, just not sure if you used something over the top to help trap the humidity in
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