UrbanChameleon
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Hey I'm wondering if you guys can help me out. I know it's Mother's Day, but hopefully I can get some responses.
I have a new cage (LLL) set up. It's a 16x16x30 aluminum screen. It is housing my 3 almost 4 month old Panther. This is his first full day in the cage and I'm having two main problems. Let me give you a little background first. Loki became ill after being shipped to my house. He went a week without eating and vomited once. Since then, I have been able to nurse him back to health. I decided to get him a new cage, and only use fake plants/vines. I want to make sure he has a perfectly clean environment, so he doesn't start to backslide. Even though he is healthy now, I want to take every precaution possible. So all in all, things are good. I just need some help with the humidity and temperature.
-The humidity is definitely the biggest problem. I feel like I'm misting his cage every 15 minutes. I have a mister, but his cage is too small to fit the lights and the mister. I'm going to work on that, but for now it's out of service. The fact that I don't have any live plants is also a problem. I'm going to jimmy rig something to catch water from a dripper today. I could also line the back of his cage with this plastic sheeting I have. Honestly, I don't think those two things combined will help all that much. If I don't mist for an hour, his humidity gets around 40% (35% at the lowest), so something has to be done. The best I can do is 60% without drowning the cage floor. And I do have drainage.
-Second, he seems dark. The temp on his basking spot is 85 F give or take a few degrees up or down. The rest of his cage is ambient temp. I have a 25 watt bulb in there now. I have a 40 watt, but I don't want him to get burnt. There's no way to hang the light above his cage. The screen doesn't get hot, but it still worries me. I don't want him to bake himself.
I'm brainstorming and working on ways to fix these issues. I'm going to need some help and ideas from you guys though. No idea, is a bad idea. I know I've listed off probably everything you were going to tell me, but there has to be something else I can do. Please, please, please, help!
I have a new cage (LLL) set up. It's a 16x16x30 aluminum screen. It is housing my 3 almost 4 month old Panther. This is his first full day in the cage and I'm having two main problems. Let me give you a little background first. Loki became ill after being shipped to my house. He went a week without eating and vomited once. Since then, I have been able to nurse him back to health. I decided to get him a new cage, and only use fake plants/vines. I want to make sure he has a perfectly clean environment, so he doesn't start to backslide. Even though he is healthy now, I want to take every precaution possible. So all in all, things are good. I just need some help with the humidity and temperature.
-The humidity is definitely the biggest problem. I feel like I'm misting his cage every 15 minutes. I have a mister, but his cage is too small to fit the lights and the mister. I'm going to work on that, but for now it's out of service. The fact that I don't have any live plants is also a problem. I'm going to jimmy rig something to catch water from a dripper today. I could also line the back of his cage with this plastic sheeting I have. Honestly, I don't think those two things combined will help all that much. If I don't mist for an hour, his humidity gets around 40% (35% at the lowest), so something has to be done. The best I can do is 60% without drowning the cage floor. And I do have drainage.
-Second, he seems dark. The temp on his basking spot is 85 F give or take a few degrees up or down. The rest of his cage is ambient temp. I have a 25 watt bulb in there now. I have a 40 watt, but I don't want him to get burnt. There's no way to hang the light above his cage. The screen doesn't get hot, but it still worries me. I don't want him to bake himself.
I'm brainstorming and working on ways to fix these issues. I'm going to need some help and ideas from you guys though. No idea, is a bad idea. I know I've listed off probably everything you were going to tell me, but there has to be something else I can do. Please, please, please, help!
