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HI, Have the same problem with almost all my tanks. I finally started spraying water on the substrate lightly everytime i check on the herps or if the humidity is less that 50%.
I have natural gas heat and I can't even sleep at nite without a humidifer in the bedroom puming out a gal of water a nite.
I have three fresh water tanks that are pumping moisture into the house. I stil come in the herp room and find the meters on all the tanks 40-50%... so spraysprayspray..This works for me.. Its a little work but you have to change thier water daily any way..if i skip a day it gets a little cloudy ,, somebody was playing in the water dish again..
Happy herpin try to get tah humidity up or they may stop eating all together.
doug
psps you will find any open tank system with external heat will dry the air directly under the heat, under tank high heat mats do the same to the air above the mat.
I went to extra large cobra mats they cover 1/2 the tank on all my 40 breeder tanks, I spray water on the newspaper and cover the top of the tank with two towels to reduce the air flow. this allows more than enough oxygen to pass but holds the humidty at 60-80 % depending on how much water I spray on the paper.You can't use a che externally and achive the desired moisture,if you try to cover a tank with a che or a light you'll burn the house down. at least I couldn't in my super dry home. Iam sure everyone will have neat ways to get around this but the large cobra mat works for me.. ps put the water dish on the cool side snakes don't like to drink hot water.. no do I... my snakes either hang half on and half off the warm side,so i have to place the hide half on and half off the warm side think you gotta link a snake ha hissssss the experts at cobra mat company want you to cover the mat on the out side of the tank with the warm side of the mat againts the glass some type of insulation to help the mat equilibrate the tank,this help hold the heat, I used some of that silver sided wall insluationstuff that comes in a sheet at lowes...super cheap and you can cut it to fit the bottom of the tank, this helps hold the heat , the mat cycles at a round a 100 deg and will allow the tank to cool down to fast without the insulation on the bottom.the tank bottomis warm to the touch but I alway put substate in the tank this drops it a couple more degs.. the ambient air is around 82 the warm side 90 cool side 80
hope this help,s ps them mats are way cheaper onthe internet than a pet store.
the cheeper tape like mats get to warm for my likings.
doug
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