Dubia Roaches/heat mat?

[Kreamcheese]

During the day I'm able to get it between 90-98. It's much hotter at the bottom because of my heat mat and so there is gradient of heat as you go up in the tub. Still at night though it goes to the lower 80s. Can I cover up the top mesh part at night with some Styrofoam to try to insulate the heat or no? They are in my garage and I cant have them anywhere else.

[BG]

I keep them in my boiler room. The water heater is on and keeps the room at 80. Pretty soon the heat will kick on.The house is warm to begin with. I,m lucky in a way. The room the frogs are in is 77 cause its next to the boiler room. .In my room i keep the turtles, monitor,and geckos. They use lights. Oh the whites have a 25 watt blue night bulb..

[Sublime]

During the day I'm able to get it between 90-98. It's much hotter at the bottom because of my heat mat and so there is gradient of heat as you go up in the tub. Still at night though it goes to the lower 80s. Can I cover up the top mesh part at night with some Styrofoam to try to insulate the heat or no? They are in my garage and I cant have them anywhere else.

You could try insulating it with a blanket wrapped around part of the top and sides, just make sure it's safe you know. If you can't insulate the heat enough, you'll probably have to pick up another heat mat, preferably the internal one I was talking about putting it inside or wrapping it around the outside.

[Kreamcheese]

I ordered the control to turn up the heat on my zoo med pad. The big zoo med pad i have wrapped on the side, then have an electric back heat on the bottom. Think my temps are pretty good now. Did you try the water bottle thing?

[Sublime]

I ordered the control to turn up the heat on my zoo med pad. The big zoo med pad i have wrapped on the side, then have an electric back heat on the bottom. Think my temps are pretty good now. Did you try the water bottle thing?

Yeah I poked a bunch of needle size holes on the top of the cap. It doesn't seem like a lot of water has evaporated out of it, but I didn't place it directly on the heat pad which would probably help. I put the water bottle in the corner because I don't want to put it in the middle where the heat pad is in case it fell over. It's probably brought the moisture up a little, with the water gel crystals I have placed over the heat pad. Still better than nothing right.

[MonsterPyxie]

Yeah I poked a bunch of needle size holes on the top of the cap. It doesn't seem like a lot of water has evaporated out of it, but I didn't place it directly on the heat pad which would probably help. I put the water bottle in the corner because I don't want to put it in the middle where the heat pad is in case it fell over. It's probably brought the moisture up a little, with the water gel crystals I have placed over the heat pad. Still better than nothing right.

what is your humidity percentage at?

if water crystal, and misting isn't enough, you probably have way to much ventilation. try covering some holes with tape, or screen with a cloth.

[Sublime]

what is your humidity percentage at?

if water crystal, and misting isn't enough, you probably have way to much ventilation. try covering some holes with tape, or screen with a cloth.

I really don't know yet, I need to buy a humidity gauge. I figured it was at least 20%, I don't mist though... Don't want to make a mess in there. I do have a good size ventilation cut out, if I find out that the humidity is escaping too fast I'll use a cloth on the screen like you said. The temps are perfect in there though, 105-110 on the floor and 90-99 on the bottom of the egg flats going up to mid 80s moving up the crates. I think I saw 2 brand new clutches of babies so hopefully I produce 500 out of this month. I don't know how old the females are that the guy gave me, but 3 of them have died already. I have about 200 adults with some baby nymphs in the mix now, he gave me mostly females too so I'm pretty stoked on the colony right now. Is that what you do to bump the humidity a lot is misting the sides of the enclosure inside? I want to get the most out of these adult females before they die.

[ViperJr]

I just want to add that in my experience, humidity is not something you need to think about, ever, when breeding dubias. I never mist, I don't have a water bowl, I don't use water crystals. The only source of water I have is the cucumber pieces that I put in there once a week. That's generally enough water for the colony. Of course, you need to adjust how much cucumber according to the population.
Also, the lid I use is basically a screen mesh, so it does not contain any humidity at all, that somehow got in there in the first place.