Before anybody gets there feathers ruffled, I will be taking pictures and posting in this thread as soon as possible.
When livingstone got its tortoise table upgrade and went from being on a 3ftx3ft table to a 4ftx8ft table I realized it would take alot more effort to keep the humidity at the correct level. For the last year+ I have struggled to keep it at 40-50% humidity during the day (A/C is to blame), sometimes dipping into the 30% range and arond 60% at night.
Its no easy task keeping the coir damp, literally it evaporated under the MVB's in hours, making the rewetting cycle a daily chore. I was failing, and there were visible signs that it was having a negative impact on livingstone, she began reverse pyramiding. Reverse pyramiding can be described as a thickening of the ridge between the plates of the carapace. So where the fresh growth was occuring there was a speed hump forming.
I decided enough was enough, I went out and purchased a cool mist humidifier from the local pharmacy and a digital timer from Home Depot. the timer now triggers the humidifier from 9-9:30am, 11-11:30am, 1-1:30pm, and 3-3:30pm. The humidity never drops below 60% daily, I am still wetting the substrate but only once every 3 days instead of daily.
Its taken livingstone about 2 weeks of acclimation to get used to the "fog" of humidity that develops. It still perturbs livingstone, and sometimes she gets up and goes and sits on top of her house until the humidifier shuts off.
If anybody else has an indoor sully setup with a humidifier please post up.
Thanks.
When livingstone got its tortoise table upgrade and went from being on a 3ftx3ft table to a 4ftx8ft table I realized it would take alot more effort to keep the humidity at the correct level. For the last year+ I have struggled to keep it at 40-50% humidity during the day (A/C is to blame), sometimes dipping into the 30% range and arond 60% at night.
Its no easy task keeping the coir damp, literally it evaporated under the MVB's in hours, making the rewetting cycle a daily chore. I was failing, and there were visible signs that it was having a negative impact on livingstone, she began reverse pyramiding. Reverse pyramiding can be described as a thickening of the ridge between the plates of the carapace. So where the fresh growth was occuring there was a speed hump forming.
I decided enough was enough, I went out and purchased a cool mist humidifier from the local pharmacy and a digital timer from Home Depot. the timer now triggers the humidifier from 9-9:30am, 11-11:30am, 1-1:30pm, and 3-3:30pm. The humidity never drops below 60% daily, I am still wetting the substrate but only once every 3 days instead of daily.
Its taken livingstone about 2 weeks of acclimation to get used to the "fog" of humidity that develops. It still perturbs livingstone, and sometimes she gets up and goes and sits on top of her house until the humidifier shuts off.
If anybody else has an indoor sully setup with a humidifier please post up.
Thanks.
