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Hello all.

I have been logging my jack's temps at night - as well as humidity.

I have him in a no -ac room in my basement.

He get down to maybe 69 degrees at night over the last two evenings. His humidity stay near 70%.

I know this is not going to cut it.

Would this be a bad idea?

I was thinking of getting a cool air humidifier and put a pipe that runs into the bottom of the cage. Run it about 1 hour before the lights go off.

Do you think that would
a) bring the humidity up to a good 90-100% value?
b) bring the temp down to a better level?
c) be safe for the cham?

or I could shut off his heat lamp an hour or so earlier than his UVB lamp - and put a bolw of moss at the bottom with a screen lid - and get it really wet. Since it is cheap stuff I could replace it every couple of days or so.

would that bring humidity up in an all screen cage? or not enough to matter.

Also - day time hunidity -
He stays around 60-65% between mistings and 75-80 during and right after. is that acceptable?

I have a bromeliad (sp) in there - which holds water nicely. It sits under his basking spot (around 85-88 F) so I assume it burns some of that off for a bit of extra humidity.

anyhow - just trying to think of a way to make him happier.

Also - strange question - Im using paper towels as a substrate. How do you all remove them without bothering your cham? Right now I have to move the cham every time. Id like a system where I dont have to really disturb him.

thanks guys - I dont know what i would do with ya!

why do you have to move the chameleon every time to change the towels?

um for humidity i would have the pipe pump through the top for alittle at noght and in the morning.

i didn't worry about humidity that much...mine stays bove 65% and thats all i worry about. if it gets near 60% I usualy turn on a humidifier.

also plant should help with humidity.

if oyu have a bunch of humidy loveing reptiles in the basement just turn on the humidifier in the middle of the room and make the entire rooms humidty go up.

or you can hang wet towels on the sides of you cage...i do this in the summer it helps cool and dampen the cage.

I would put a small fan on the cage or near the cage to produce an occasional breeze, oscellating fan, or one on a low speed. Not a gail-force wind, just a barely perceptable breeze which barely moves the leaves, maybe an occasional drying stiff breeze every day or so for five minutes or so. He really really needs air circulation since he's in a basement (you are lucky, wish I had a nice even temperatured basement) The humidifyer is a good idea but I would put it higher in the cage if it is a "cool mist" then the fog will sink into the cage from gravity, or put it in front of the fan. I think 68 is a decent night temp, although lower would be better. This depends alot on the daytime temps, a ten degree drop at night is recomended to stimulate your cham's appetite. I don't think you mentioned the daytime ambient temp. Just mist often with warm water, and I mean mist not a strong spray. Be sure and have something that holds a drop of water all the time so he can see it and drink if possible, there are lots of ways to do this. you will notice the breeze will lower the temp levels as well, evaporation is a cooling process.