I just wanted to let everyone know that I have found humidity in the winter months to be incredibly hard to maintain. Due to running the heat in my apartment and the natural dryness from the winter I have lost almost 40% humidity. I am running an ultrasonic Humidifier on full blast in the enclosure 24/7 and increased my misting sessions from 10 min 3 times a day to 20 min 3 times a day. But still about 10 min after the misting stops there is a huge drop in humidity. Anyone else have this problem that lives in a cold climate? I am thinking about wrapping the enclosure with plastic garbage bags to try and hold the humidity in better. Anyone see a problem with that?

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Buy a small Humidifier at Home Depot or even Best Buy and set it to 60% in the room. That will solve your problem.

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what is your ambient humidity?

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I meant to say a larger Humidifier. That will solve your problem right away.

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Ya I have the same problem year round. Especially when the heat kicks on in the winter. I have 3 humidifiers going 24/7 just to get 45-50% humidity.

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I will have to check and see what my ambient humidity is I don't have a sensor outside the cages..... yet. I will buy another humidifier tonight and hope that ends this up and down cycle I have going now.

Mostly I wanted to post this so people would know that humidity in the winter is crazy!! I have a super automated setup with data logging, graphs, alarms (automatically sends me an sms if temps, humidity, or misting water level drop too low) and the works. I may not have even noticed if I didn't have the equipment. Most of the drop happens at night while I'm sleeping and there is no misting. So keep an eye out if you live in the snow too!!

BTW - Thanks Mike I just got my shipment notification. Now I really need to get my stuff set right considering I will have a new Toddler in the house!

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As a temporary solution, if humidity drops real low you can spray a spray bottle in the air around the room for about 5-10 minutes. It kicks the humidity up well for a bit. Of course you dont want to do this all the time so I'd go to cragislist or something and hook up another humidifier or two.

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Yes. Stagnant damp air breeding mold and mildew in the planters, bacteria and URIs. The canopy dwellers need the air flow. Good luck with the extra humidifier! Let us know how it goes.

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instead of wrapping the entire cage with plastic.. just do one or 2 sides. that way it helps with the humidity but still allows for air flow

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Yep that was the idea all along...I would never completely wrap the cage in plastic although I do realize I did write something like that!

Makes me think of after 911 when Cheney said that everyone should seal their houses with garbage bags incase of a chemical attack!!! Then the next day a couple smart people reminded him that if you do that you'll suffocate!!

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