Humidity issue

[Light of Dae]

I was looking at a frog fogger, you can set it to replicate morning dew, or low cloud cover etc. I think with a substrate that can handle moisture like coco husk(I feel I should be getting paid for advertising...) That it would work wonders... Think I'm going to try it, If I like it, I'll get one for each tank, if I don't like it I'll just use it for my Lizard

[guidofatherof5]

For a garter enclosure? Sounds like too much humidity.
If you meant for your salamander then disregard my post.

[Light of Dae]

I was thinking of trying it for my garters... It is programmable but we'll see, I would try it out first without them in the tank. Monitor it for a few days.

[chris-uk]

One of my vivs that tended to have low humidity through the winter I fixed by putting a small ramekin dish with some damp sphagnum moss into the viv and kept the moss moist. This is in addition to proving a damp moss hide. When I ended up with the dish partially over the heatmat it did a good job of raising the humidity to 40-50%. In the winter our ambient humidity tends to be pretty low.

[guidofatherof5]

One of my vivs that tended to have low humidity through the winter I fixed by putting a small ramekin dish with some damp sphagnum moss into the viv and kept the moss moist. This is in addition to proving a damp moss hide. When I ended up with the dish partially over the heatmat it did a good job of raising the humidity to 40-50%. In the winter our ambient humidity tends to be pretty low.

I had to look that up.
Ramekin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[chris-uk]

I had to look that up.
Ramekin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You get them in the States don't you? Probably called souffle dish. They're ideal because we don't use them very often (souffle and creme brulee doesn't feature on the weekly menus in our house) so I didn't get any complaints when I re-purposed one from the the kitchen to the viv, it's the right size and holds the moss without letting the substrate get damp.

[EasternGirl]

In Delaware, this time of year and continuing throughout the summer...I will now have the opposite problem of what I usually have...now I will be monitoring to make sure the humidity doesn't get too high in my enclosures. It has been staying at around 60% lately...but it can get quite humid here in the summer. Now I know we have members on here from states that are far more humid than Delaware in the warmer months...any suggestions for keeping humidity from getting too high?

[kibakiba]

Fans kind of take away some of the humidity. At least, in my experience they do. I have one running at all times, and it seems to keep my room a little more dry.

[chris-uk]

...any suggestions for keeping humidity from getting too high?

Good ventilation, fans, a dehumidifier, or a huge sack of silca gel.

[Steveo]

Running an air conditioner will reduce absolute humidity, though it's a rather expensive solution. (Cold air cannot hold as much moisture as hot air; humidity is reported as "relative humidity" because it is a percentage of what the air can hold, relative to temperature.)