Damp has the potential to kill eggs and would discourage a female from nesting. It has to be humid but not actually wet.

Temperature is really important - well beyond "having it a little warm will encourage them to lay", monitors have very specific temperature requirements when it comes to nesting.

It has to be said, I agree with FR in questioning your activities on this forum. For someone that does not keep monitors and has even said they don't actually like monitors, you do spend a lot of time hanging around a monitor forum (which is fine and harms no one) offering poor advice (which is not fine, as it affects others). This forum may be a social outlet for you, as it seems to be for a lot of people on many of the forums of which I am a member, and I have no issues with that (although if it were me and I didn't actually keep monitors, I'd be doing something else involving going outside and getting fresh air). However, when you try to offer advice to others the readers may not realise you've never kept monitors and get themselves, and their monitors, into trouble. Even if you think you're just typing out the same words that you've read elsewhere, slight change in phrasing ('damp' vs 'humid' for example) can make a huge difference in outcome.

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