My trick to up humidity

[laurie]

Do you ever have trouble keeping the humidity up where you need it? I did, but now I use fabric to provide visual barriers for my chams. If I need to up the humidity I just spray the fabric. It really holds the humidity up. I use it every night with my quads. My daytime humidity is 70 to 75. My night time is 75 to 90. My quads seem happy with this. I also use it with my panthers or veils when the humidity drop here as it often does.

 

[chameleonman57]

sounds like a good trick, I might use it with my veiled.

 

[Vampire.queen]

That's a good trick!

 

[Fidel]

Laurie, do you wash the fabric a lot? I would imagine wet fabric would be a bacteria trap.

 

[cushcameleon]

Laurie, do you wash the fabric a lot? I would imagine wet fabric would be a bacteria trap.

This is a good point. I just use cut and sized trashbags on the sides of my cage, it works very well.

 

[Sancho]

Do you ever have trouble keeping the humidity up where you need it? I did, but now I use fabric to provide visual barriers for my chams. If I need to up the humidity I just spray the fabric. It really holds the humidity up. I use it every night with my quads. My daytime humidity is 70 to 75. My night time is 75 to 90. My quads seem happy with this. I also use it with my panthers or veils when the humidity drop here as it often does.

Thats a good way but I would guess you would have to wash it very often to prevent mold right?

I use painters plastic on my cages back side and one of the sides. When the mister goes off the humidity is raises and sits for awhile.

 

[luevelvet]

I've tried this on a few cages and prefer to not deal with wet fabrics anymore. They do harbor a tremendous amount of bacteria and very much within the proximity of your animals. One trick I've been using to keep humidity up in the quads enclosure is to keep multiple potted mosses on the bottom of the cage. They soak up the mister water pretty well and keep humidity up throughout the day. The quads love to hunt in and around them too.

Luis

 

[Carlton]

A couple of tricks I've used for deremensis include using oversized plant pots that provide more surface area of soil...when you water the plants the soil releases more moisture. To keep chams from picking up soil on their tongues I don't free range my feeders and cover the soil surface with screen. Also, the recycled paper pulp cage bedding in window screen bags really holds moisture is fairly bacteria and mold resistant. I keep several of these with wet pulp in the cage if the weather is dry. Eventually they do harbor bacteria, but I cycle them...put used ones outside in full sun to "cook" and dry out which does cut down on the bacteria. But, the old standby ultrasonic humidifier cycling on a lamp timer still seemed to be the best way to keep up humidity.

 

[jojackson]

You could always buy a volcano Laurie!
wont damp fabric tend to cut ventilation a bit?

 

[laurie]

I don't take chances, I have an auto mister, 4 minutes 3 times a day, all day drippers and all day foggers. I have velcro so I can move fabric on and off cages easy. I did buy 25 yards all the same so it wouldn't confuse the chans since I change them all time.

 

[Fearaffect]

I have my inside cages on towels.....they always stay damn from the run off and keeps humidity up...Change out every Friday to new ones.

 

[tkilgour]

a volcano yeah

 

[tkilgour]

I have my inside cages on towels.....they always stay damn from the run off and keeps humidity up...Change out every Friday to new ones.

yes, i do the same thing as you. Although, I change them every night. Call me obsesive.

 

[FroggtheCham]

I have a shower curtain, but same idea. It completely dries overnight. I have a towel along one side as well. I too change it every night. All in all, seems to work well!