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at Thu Dec 11 18:26:18 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by azteclizard ]
A few things to consider. The measurement that they are calling humidity inthis experiment is not a measure of the air humudity in a Uro burrow. It is just a measure of the amount of water present in the sample. All they did was take the amount of water in grams, and divided it by the sample wieght and multiplied by 100 to get a %. There wasn't ant instrumentation used to measure humidity. They said that the air humidity was where they took the samples was 10-20%, I would imagine the air humidity of a burrow would be higher than that. It would make sense that they would seek out areas with a relatively high humidity, and it would also make sense that they would seek very dry hot basking areas. This is why it is important when setting up a habitat that uses a soil substrate, that the cage be large enough to create these micro climates.
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RE: What is the growth rate for the Ornate Uromstyx? - azteclizard, Thu Dec 11 18:26:18 2003