Heat/Humidity frustration

[Sasha]

Well this is all good news! I might buy a small humidifier too. My humidity regularly drops to about 45% in my main enclosure during the day. I'm not sure what the humidity is in my quarantine tank since the hydrometer isn't working. So I just make sure I keep it well misted in there. I don't have a fogger or anything so I mist like crazy in the morning before work and then again when I get back and throughout the evening. Thankfully I only work 4 hours a day so it never drops too much. But a humidifier would sure help! I also have a ceramic heat emitter I'm going to start using once I get my strip light back from the quarantine tank. Right now I'm using an incandescent bulb in my main tank and it does a great job of drying it out!

Skitter might just be going through a spell were he likes being in the water bowl. Like I said, Glurmo is so lazy he sometimes just falls asleep in the water bowl and will stay there unless he's moved or woken up. Some frogs are just lazy!

Michelle, I live close to work so I work 4 hours, come home for lunch work another 4 hours and then come home. It's nice because it helps me obsess over the tanks more LOL! The fogger has been a godsend because on the timer it turns on and off. It usually keeps the humidity at a good level and the substrate doesn't get saturated. Thanks for assuring me that sleeping in the water bowl is okay. I've noticed there is a pattern to his madness so since he is eating, I've watched him shed with no problems and he just took a big poop, I am going to try and let him be his goofy self!

Just wanted you to know, in my tank the water is the moisture source and I can make humidity by covering part of the top with plastic over part of the lid. I always leave part open so they get air.

Hoppity, I actually thought about putting plastic over the top of the tank. Unfortunately, With the lights sitting right on top of the tank there's not much room left for plastic. When I had my quarantine tank set up I put a wet washcloth and covered with plastic and it worked pretty good.

Glurmo....hee hee....LOVE that name....lol

Patsy....this is a dumb question, but what's the water level inside the tank? if it is too high, humidity can drop, too low, the same. has the water level in the tank changed at all throughout this deal?

Bill, the only water I have in my tank is in their water bowl. I have the fogger and I mist a few times during the day. I don't have real plants. My original plan for this tank was to put real plants in it but got scared off when Fiona died. I had put some potted plants in her tank (that were cleaned real good and growing in distilled water weeks before I put them in the tank) and got worried that might have contributed to her getting sick.