you are SURE we have a humidity gauge at PE?

i would challenge you to find one.

i would say that we do a pretty good job of breeding reptiles. this is our 15th year. we have bred thousands of animals. we have never used a humidity gauge to measure humidity.

you don't have to see a dead ball with scale rot to know it is too moist. you can see it is too moist with different clues that are just as simple as dry sheds. then you can adjust accordingly. to think that i would wait until the animal is near death, or even sloughing scales, that is just dopey. i want to see folks become BETTER keepers, not DUMBER keepers.

the point is to READ YOUR ANIMALS. a book or caresheet works as a BASIS for care, but you have to consider your own specific set up, your own specific variables, and read and react to those.

the setup i need to provide in Colorado is different than the one i need to provide in Florida, which differs from Arizona, which differs from Michigan.

cheap humidity gauges, which are plentiful, are horribly inaccurate. they are not much better than licking your finger and holding it in the air to measure temp.

learn to read your animals, react and adjust accordingly, and you will be a better keeper.
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robyn@proexotics.com

Pro Exotics Reptiles

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• humity in snake room. - kasimar, Sat Feb 2 16:26:54 2008
• Re humidity - Dave763, Sat Feb 2 18:27:36 2008
• RE: humity in snake room. - robyn@ProExotics, Sat Feb 2 19:50:38 2008
• RE: humity in snake room. - Dave763, Sun Feb 3 06:48:40 2008
• RE: humity in snake room. - rsherman79, Sun Feb 3 09:02:18 2008
• you need to settle down - robyn@ProExotics, Mon Feb 4 12:54:17 2008
• Belly Rot - Dave763, Sun Feb 3 06:54:00 2008
• RE: Belly Rot - FatBoyBallPython, Sun Feb 3 07:29:30 2008
• Here ya go ...a real answer - Dave763, Sun Feb 3 11:08:50 2008