Create humidity outdoors?? Sulcata in dry heat

[Coco449]

Hello I have a sulcata shes about 2yrs and she spends most of her days outside. There is plenty of sun but we live in arizona and it's a dry heat. We get just about no humidity here.

Is there some way I can create humidity for her outdoors? Or is it okay for her not to have humidity outdoors for some reason?

I'm really worried because shes pyramiding.

What can I do?

 

[Len B]

Not often but sometimes we have long dry spells and I use a hose Y on a regular hose and barely crack open one outlet and get a very fine mist coming out and mount it to send the mist into the air and let it fall into the enclosure.

 

[Tom]

Hello I have a sulcata shes about 2yrs and she spends most of her days outside. There is plenty of sun but we live in arizona and it's a dry heat. We get just about no humidity here.

Is there some way I can create humidity for her outdoors? Or is it okay for her not to have humidity outdoors for some reason?

I'm really worried because shes pyramiding.

What can I do?

What size is your tortoise?

What I do is humidify the night box. And I also let them burrow once the weather gets consistently hot. Usually in June here, and probably the same for you.

If the enclosure is heavily planted and bushy, you can run sprinklers and misters on hot days, but its so dry here in the Southwest that it doesn't do much on such a large scale.

 

[Yvonne G]

For my rain forest tortoises I pounded T- posts into the ground 10 or 15' apart then strung drip pipe along the tops of them. I punched in sprinkler-type emitters about every 5'.

This is what the sprinkler-type emitter looks like:


Every afternoon I turn on the water and these emitters spray my 'rain forest.'




Out in the African savannah I run the sprinklers every other day or so. Also, there are large clumps of tall grasses for them to shelter under to help maintain the moisture.




Dudley has a pineapple guava he loves to sit under:




The babcock leopards live on the plains, which is overgrown with tall elephant grass. There are also several trees and a grapevine to help hold in humidity. I have the drip pipe strung along the tops of T-posts out on the plains too, and I turn on the water if the temperature is going to be in the 100sF:

 

[LasTortugasNinja]

I lived in central AZ for 20 years. Arizona averages 30% to 50% daily humidity, with 60% to 80% humidity in the mornings, similar to much of their natural range. You probably don't need to do anything except on the one or two super dry days in June or July at 20% or less. If they get their soakings, you should be fine. If you have drought resistant grass or bushes and plenty of shade (which will increase humidity), that should do it by itself.