Martha, our newest WTF family member, has been home in her standard 10 gal QT tank for 2 days (got her Dec 2). She's mostly hiding out, which is understandable, but I do see her sometimes when she's out lurking about, and she will turn her head to look at me when she sees me. She does NOT like to be filmed... lol. I know she's been in her soaking dish (Spring water treated with Reptisafe) at least once because I found a poo in there the morning of the 3rd that was almost the size of my little WTF, Jelly Bean! I didn't know if a soaked poo would be suitable for testing so tossed it out and am waiting for a dry "land poo" to send in. Martha did not eat anything the first day/night, but she eagerly devoured some crickets (dusted with Reptocal w/ Cal/D3) and one small Dubia the night of the 3rd, and she grabbed 2-3 again this morning when they crawled toward her coconut hut... she came out like a bullet, heh! They had been in a dish but had escaped by climbing up her back...

Anyway... she's in the kitchen across the hall from a baseboard heater. The heat in the apartment is 73F, she has a Fluker's Deep Dome with a 60 watt blue daytime light in it sitting directly on top of the screen lid (there's also a planter thing with a few rocks in it on top to weight it down, and the darn lid doesn't fit right and slides around, so I'm worried about her getting out :/) Now, I have those el cheapo Petco heat and humidity gauges in there near the top of the tank, the were right under the dome and the temp read 98 F!!! I don't mind my frogs going up to 80-81 F, and I've read that 85 F is ok, but I do NOT want to inadvertently cook Martha! I'd tried the ZooMed Double Mini Domes, with one side blue and the other red light, and that was too hot, so switched back to the Fluker's one. I didn't trust the Petco gauges, so I stuck a household digital thermo-hygrometer in there that I use in my African violet tanks (it can't stay, she'd knock it over) and started watching the temps at the bottom of the tank near the coconut hut she spends her time hiding out in... over anout a 30 min period it went up to 82 F and kept going, so I moved the some to the other side of the tank (it's over the water dish now) and over about another half hr later the household gauge is reading 77.4 F, a temp I'm more at ease about since she's sequestered herself in that little hut. My other guys are about 77-80 F during the day and 73-75 F at night, so would like to keep Martha in the same general range, give or take.

Is it ok to leave the dome over the water? Will the water get too warm for her? What is a good quality thermo-hygrometer that I can use in the tank other than those Petco things? Something that Martha can't trash, being a big girl.

While I'm thinking about it, what can I do, other than a heavy thing on top of her mesh screen partially blocking airflow (not a lot, but still) to safeguard her from getting out? Being the lid doesn't exactly fit I don't know if lid clamps that might work with the top will work with a tank that it doesn't exactly fit... guh. Got the tank from Goodwill so don't know the brand, the lid is from Petco.

So anyway, Martha is otherwise doing well, feeding (yay!), and looking good. Awaiting further "developments" so I can send in a fecal sample, but in the meantime I want to make sure all her heat and humidity needs are spot on. When her QT is up she will be getting herself a bigger tank (vert Exo-Terra) and moving to the top of the cabinet behind her.

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Pics from about 1 1/2 hours ago (noon) will add more pics of the current temp now that the dome is moved over to the right above the water dish.