Humidity when outside

Aaron23

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Right now i have a 1 year old sulcata that i obviously have indoors in a high humid area for him/her. I'm just wondering when he gets big enough to be outside,how do i keep the humidity levels high in his enclosure? I live in utah so it gets dry here.
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You can't really. All you can do is provide lots of water to soak in, a pond or a mud puddle. During the summer, you could use misters. Charlie gets some moisture from walking on a dewy or freshly watered lawn.
 

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I hose the pen down, especially on hot days.
 

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Right now i have a 1 year old sulcata that i obviously have indoors in a high humid area for him/her. I'm just wondering when he gets big enough to be outside,how do i keep the humidity levels high in his enclosure? I live in utah so it gets dry here.
Thanks

It is very dry in my climate too. I use tubs or buckets of water in my heated night boxes to give them some humidity. All of the above advice from other posters is good too.
 

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My sulcata spends more than half of every day in a heated night box. With just a few trays of water in there the humidity stays above 50%. The night box is only 50 cubic feet, so that isn't much volume. On warm days, 80°F and sunny, my sulcata spends most of his time in the shade of the bushes that grow around his enclosure. I think the humidity stays a little higher under the vegetation. We don't get many days where the temp gets above 95°, so he has never dug a burrow. If the humidity drops down to 15-30%, like it does here, I wet down his hiding spots.
 

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