Well It's been over a week and my hatchlings are still alive so they must be eating. I caught a few eating at this point. Now I want to focus on humidity so I will be going bioactive. The question I have is I do not want to flood the enclosure so how much do they really need to be misted. I have noticed the hatchlings will lap up standing water on leaves but do they really need dripping water? I will have a false bottom but I want that just for disasters and protection. I don't want to have to drain the false bottom like with dart frogs if I can avoid it. With my dart frogs if I see it building up I mist less but those are semi sealed enclosures with 80% glass tops.
Is the most important thing providing beads of water a few times a day with the correct humidity levels or do they truly need the moving water. At this age I think a dripper would just knock them off a leaf and would add way to much water to a tank without hole drilled in the glass if I just let it run non stop. I could add a humidifier attached to a hydrometer that I use for incubating chicken eggs,
Does the same really apply to adults. Do they really need a dripper? I want to minimize the runoff that gets through the potted plants or substrate layer.
Hand misting would flood the cage if I did these 2 minutes of misting but I remember years ago with a misting system much less water would come out and a finer spray so maybe thats how people get away with misting so long. A pump mister would empty the gallon bottle after 2 minutes. 15 seconds is enough but they won't drink that fast with me standing there doing the spraying.
Is the most important thing providing beads of water a few times a day with the correct humidity levels or do they truly need the moving water. At this age I think a dripper would just knock them off a leaf and would add way to much water to a tank without hole drilled in the glass if I just let it run non stop. I could add a humidifier attached to a hydrometer that I use for incubating chicken eggs,
Does the same really apply to adults. Do they really need a dripper? I want to minimize the runoff that gets through the potted plants or substrate layer.
Hand misting would flood the cage if I did these 2 minutes of misting but I remember years ago with a misting system much less water would come out and a finer spray so maybe thats how people get away with misting so long. A pump mister would empty the gallon bottle after 2 minutes. 15 seconds is enough but they won't drink that fast with me standing there doing the spraying.
