Product Review: Zoo Med HygroTherm

[J Teezy]

I know Grif using them too. My question is what style is the probe or part that goes in the tank. is it an open or closed style?

[bshmerlie]

Yes I still use them and there is kind of trick to keeping it accurate. If you do it you will have no problem and I have used mine for a couple of years now. I keep one on my Cobalt tank at work and the other one on my 65 gallon Red Eye tank at home. I have measured them with other digital measuring devices and it seems to be within +or- one degree. Close enough for me. Now here's the trick. On the Dart frog tank due to the high humidity you have to keep it away from the plants. Once a week I blow dry it out with one of those compressed gas canisters you can get the office supply store or just leave it out for awhile to dry out. Every so often I take the one out of my Red Eye tank but only when I'm doing a major house cleaning. I have the Zoo med Repti-fogger hooked to them and then the heat mats. This also helps keep those cheap Repti-foggers working for a long time because they are only coming on for a few seconds at a time and even then only 3-4 times a day. So they are never consitantly running. I can go on vacation for a few days and I don't have to worry about my frogs. I feel it gives peace of mind and is worth every penny.

[flybyferns]

Thanks Cheri !!!!!

[GrifTheGreat]

I agree completely with Cheri's opinion of this product. I have 3 of them and they are pretty accurate and I like that there is a feature for a tolerance in temps and humidity so it allows you to let the temps drop or rise from 0 to 15 degrees or units of humidity before it will turn the heat mats or foggers on or off. This way also saves the more if the foggers and heating units you are using.

These are a great buy and I use them with my Pacman frogs. They maintain the climate according to my setting and my Pacs are happy and healthy.

[bshmerlie]

I can't stress enough how important it is to have your frog care as automated as possible. That could mean a misting system if you have multiple tanks, foggers, heatmats and have everything as electronically monitored as possible. For those of you who dont know I was seriously ill for the past eight months and there were times where I would go two or three weeks without being able to care for my frogs. It was something that came up rather quickly so I was unable to really prepare. If I didnt already have systems like the hygro-therm I would have most likely lost a good portion of my frogs. Did I lose some? Yeah...to be honest I did lose a handful....but nothing like it could have been. So think about your setups and what would you do if you had to leave them alone for one, two or three weeks....how would they fare? The $80 spent on the Hygro-therm is worth it.

[J Teezy]

you want automatic check out the EcoZone controller!!!

[flybyferns]

you want automatic check out the EcoZone controller!!!

Josh,
It's great ,BUT so $$$$.
Are you using an EcoZone?
We should start a new thread to see if FF members are using it.