Brodybreaux25
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Go on Amazon and get a shower curtain with a nice jungle or outdoor scene on it. $20 and looks way better than regular plastic!
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Brodybreaux25
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CamoChameleonsHuman
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Interesting. He seemed to dance around your question. All I said was, "they weren't preferred." Not that people don't use them or shouldn't. I hear of them breaking more often then not. I think each individuals case is different and there is no right or wrong in this. I personally use 1 humidifier in the room he's in all day and all night. Stays stable at 45-50% during the day and spiking up to 75-80% at night. I do this simply for the humidity not for my Chams water source. I also use a mister every 4hrs for 2 min intervals during the day which us happily keeping him hydrated and the humidity stable. I do not use any siding on my all screen cage either so he has maximum airflow.
Brodybreaux25
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Petr can definitely be a dancer sometimes! I could have worded my original response better, should have been geared more toward dispelling the negative view of foggers your post put out there. But I still stand by what I said.
So how much foliage do you have in your viv? You should be able to create the correct humidity gradients without the humidifier. How are you measuring humidity and at what points? Humidity should be viewed the same way we view temps. Your goal should not be to have identical amounts of humidity through out the entire viv, you should be making pockets of varying humidity levels throughout the entire viv. This allows your Cham to move in and out of these gradients as he sees fit to regulate his body’s needs.
So how much foliage do you have in your viv? You should be able to create the correct humidity gradients without the humidifier. How are you measuring humidity and at what points? Humidity should be viewed the same way we view temps. Your goal should not be to have identical amounts of humidity through out the entire viv, you should be making pockets of varying humidity levels throughout the entire viv. This allows your Cham to move in and out of these gradients as he sees fit to regulate his body’s needs.
CamoChameleonsHuman
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Only fake foliage right now. I understand the concept of humidity pockets but in nature chameleons aren't in search of humidity pockets. And in the trees or bush's where they are found I don't believe the humidity around them differs all that much relative to what the air is surrounding them. Sometimes I think we take our husbandry a little overboard. Oh and I measure with a dial hydrometer. I know not ideal but it ball parks well enough. I just don't see where your logic is that stating without a doubt a fogger is better than a ultrasonic cool air humidifier? Unless we take everything Peter says as the word of God...?
