I recently brought my little guy on a road trip from Colorado to California! I was anticipating humidity becoming an issue, as I am now a block away from the beach (lots of fog, marine layer, and moisture). I bought a new dehumidifier before arriving, and also brought along an Eva-Dry dehumidifier.
I also took the water dish out of his tank the dehumidifiers are definitely working, but I am still concerned. His humidity level should be around 40%, outside right now is about 75%, and the gauge in his tank reads at about 50%. The gauge I have IS a ZooMed stick-on (on the hot side)... and I know that stick ons are inaccurate for temps... but what about the humidity gauge? In CO the gauge read closer to 35% most of the time. I have a probe thermometer but the connected humidity gauge doesn't work––it always reads around 10% humidity which is just wrong.
So I'm wondering if I need to do more to keep him healthy. Are there any accurate humidity gauges anyone could recommend? Is this a serious health risk I should be concerned about? Or is it something I might want to just keep an eye on...?
He seems happy in his new environment BUT I don't want him getting a respiratory illness or a fungus or something like that.
ALSO! I was wondering if i could put the Eva-Dry INSIDE of his enclosure? Are there any risks to doing this? Would that be safe? Should I do that...? Right now it is sitting directly above his enclosure.
Get a digital probe hygrometer --- place the probe on the back center wall of the tank it will read the whole tank ---- do this before panicking--- the humidity in the tank should not be below 20% and not above 70% --- optimal is 30-50% anything in else from what I told you is fine ----- if its above 70% use the small humidifier you bought and place next to the tank -- I would not advise putting one inside the tank
So I do already have a humidity probe but it always ready around 10% which is wrong. I saw somewhere that it might just need to be calibrated? How do I do this? It's a ZooMed themometer/hygrometer, with one screen but 2 probes.