Trouble keeping substrate moist throughout

[Mentat]

Pacman frogs are nocturnal and do not require any type of light other than light in room. A basking type bulb will create heat and drying within it's beam and is counterproductive in a your frog enclosure. This is a ceramic heat emitter: Fluker's ceramic emitter l Heat source for reptiles l Reptile heating; and this is a dome with built in dimmer for it: Repta-Clamp Lamp Ceramic w/ Dimmer Switch. Those are made by Fluker's; but there are other brands with similar products too.

You can try removing the basking bulb and use aluminum foil to block off most of the screen top, to reduce heat and humidity loss. Then if needed, can increase the wattage of your heat source or use a combo of two sources (i.e. a ceramic heat emitter and a heat pad) to reach your heating goals. Good luck !

[MikeIsGreen]

Right on, thanks for that Paul! Carlos, I just turned the light off and measured the temperature when I did and it was at 81.7 I currently do not have aluminum foil, so I'll keep a close eye on everything and see how it goes. If the temps drop I assume I can add the heat lamp and that should be fine..? Also, (this just hit me and will sound stupid) but I e been keeping the light on during the day. Was I completely messing up his sleep time? Man I feel dumb..edit-THANK YOU for the links!

[DigitalPunk]

I failed. Went home for lunch and my order of crickets and fruit flies arrived so I sorted those out and then the 2 baby frogs got delivered so I sorted them out and then I realized i was 10 mins late getting back to work. I'll have to get a pic tonight.

[MikeIsGreen]

Haha! Thats fine man..no worries! Sounds like a pretty cool lunch to me! I turned off the basking light and turned on the infared light and current substrate level temp (where he is nooked up) is at 81.6 and half inch above that is 82.4 which to me seems good, but what say you guys? Thanks!

[DigitalPunk]

again not being a packman expert I would say it sounds good to me.. I would let one of the other experts chime in before you take me word for it lol.

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

Every time I take my frog out to feed or to spot clean or for any reason.
I use this time to add treated water to the substate to get it to the level of clumping when compressed and not sopping wet.

With doing that and the amount of cover I have on the top screen it keeps the humidity levels around 70-80%
and if drops below 70% the Hygrotherm kicks in the zoomed reptifogger but that is a rare thing.
I normally don't have to refill the bottle for month to more.

[MikeIsGreen]

Cool...thanks Louis! I havent removed him for a feeding yet, but may start! I got my zoo med thermometer/hygrometer just a little but ago and just like I thought my humidity is low I just misted and it's only at 40% was higher but dropped. What could I cover part of the screen with since I don't have aluminum foil? I do have plastic wrap and I did see the reptifogger is cheaper atm on amazon than petsmart. Is this a route I should go? Thanks guys!